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AGARICINI. 



Gen. 13. WARASMIUS, Fr. 



Spores white, sub-elliptical ; pileus 

 tough, fleshy, or membranaceous ; 

 stem central (in one species it is 

 absent), confluent with the hymeno- 

 phorc, but of a different texture ; 

 gills thick, tough, and coriaceous, 

 confluent at the base, generally dis- 

 tant, and rarely decurrent, with a 

 sharp entire edge. (Fig. 55.^ 



Hab. Epiphytal, or growing on 

 decayed leaves, or the roots of grasses. 



This genus, closely allied to Colhjhia, 

 commences the series of Agarics that are 

 not putrescent, but which dry up vsdth drought, and come to life with rain. 

 This biological character is of great importance ; by its neglect species nearly 

 related have been widely separated. The texture of all the species is tough, 

 distinguishing them from the preceding. The species are mostly small and 

 Blender. Some are edible, others have an offensive, foetid, or alliaceous 

 BmQ\\—W.O.S. 



634. 



Sect. 1. Collyhim. 

 S/Iairasxnius uxens. Fr. " Stinging Marasmius. 



Acrid. Pileus between fleshy and coriaceous, convex, then 

 plane, smooth, even, at length wrinkled or rivulose ; stem fibrous, 

 solid, rigid, pallid, mealy with white fibrils, and clothed with 

 white down at the base ; gills free, joined behind, pallid, some- 

 what yellowish, becoming brownish, at length remote, distant, 

 firm.— i^r. Epicr. p. 373. Bull t. 528,/. 1. Fl.Dan. t. 2018,/. 1. 

 Berk. Outl.t.UJ.B. Ann. N.H. no. 27b. Price,/. Id. Smith. 

 P.M.f. 30. 



In woods. 



Gregarious, cgespitose. Stem 2-3 in. long, 3 lin. thick, equal, clothed 

 everywhere with white flocci, pallid, villous at the base. Pileus 2-3 in. broad, 

 pinkish-tawny ; margin thin, involute. Taste acrid, stinging. Spores "0001 

 X -00012 in. 



655. Marasmius pexonatus. Fr. •' Masked Marasmius." 



Acrid. Pileus between coriaceous and membranaceous, con- 

 vexo-plane, opaque, at length lacunose ; margin striate ; stem 

 fibrous, stuffed, outer coat villous, yellow, then rufescent, base 

 peronate and strigose ; gills adnexed, seceding, rather thin and 



