404 FETCH : 



Solitary, or in groups, sometimes fasciculate, on the ground 

 among grass. Berkeley and Broome state that Marasmius 

 ochraceus grows on wood, but the figure does not indicate that. 



Pileus broadly convex, centre even or irregularly depressed, 

 entirely brick red, or reddish-brown in the centre becoming 

 ochraceous towards the margin, sometimes feebly zoned, 

 margin sometimes whitish ; fleshy, smooth, slightly hoary 

 when young, shining, 2 to 4 cms. diameter; flesh wliite, 

 'becoming reddish when cut. Stalk, 4 to 5-5 cms. long, 3 to 

 4 mm. diameter, nearly equal, white, sometimes longitudinally 

 streaked with ochraceous, becoming reddish or ochraceous 

 when handled, pruinose or minutely tomentose, tough, hollow, 

 hned with white fibres, white internally becoming reddisli 

 when cut ; base clothed with white tomentum. GiUs palhd, 

 distant, up to 1 cm. broad, quadrate, the lower edge almost 

 straight, abruptly truncate behind with the inner edge almost 

 vertical, free or slightly adnexed. Spores white, narrow-oval, 

 contents granular, 9-13 X 4 /u. 



The paintings of the two " species " are practically identical. 



46. — Marasmius rufescens B. & Br. 



" Cantharellus capensis Berk." (in part), in B. & Br., Fungi 

 of Ceylon, No. 350, Journ. Linn. Soc, XIV., p. 33. 



Marasmius rufescens B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 394, 

 Journ. Linn. Soc, XIV., p. 41. 



Xerotus tener B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, No. 426, Journ. 

 Linn. Soc, XIV., p. 45. 



Marasmius campanella Holtermann, Myk. Untersuch. p. 105, 

 Taf. 12, fig. 1. 



Berkeley and Broome's confusion in this case involves three 

 of Thwaites' numbers, viz., 90, 684, and 687; there was a 

 figm'e of No. 90 only. The figure was returned, marked 

 Cantharellus capensis Berk., but in the published list No. 90 

 is recorded as both Cantharellus capensis and Marasmius 

 rufescens. No. 684 was said to be C. capensis only, and 

 No. 687 was fisted as Xerotus tener. Thwaites had considered 

 these so closely alike that he had included them on one sheet, 

 and at the present day they are on one sheet in the Peradeniya 

 Herbarium, marked 90, 684, and 687 in Thwaites' handwriting. 



