KEY 



TO THE SPECIES OF THE GENUS MARASMIUS FIGURED IN 

 »DANMARKS AGARICACEER«. 



A. Radicosi (Quélet). Large or medium-sized species (cap l ! / 2 cm or 

 more): Stem somewhat rooting or attached to the substratum by 

 means of mycelium. Generally growing on the ground. (NB.: nos. 

 9 — 11.) 



a. Scortei (Fr. ext.). Stem tough, but not cartilagineous or 

 horny, generally becoming hollow with age, but not distinctly 

 fistulöse from the beginning, more or less fibrillose. 



a. Taste pungent 1. M. urens. 



b. Taste fade 



1. Base of stem strigose. 



* Cap wrinkled, but not pellucido-striate, becoming 

 dark purplish-brown. Base of stem curved, attached 



to dead foliage 2. M. fiiscopurpureus. 



t Cap pellucido-striate. Stem straightly rooting amongst 

 dead needles (of Pinus) 3. M putillus. 



2. Base not strigose. 



* Gills distant. Growing on the ground (parasitic on 

 grass-roots) forming »fairy-rings« 4. M. Oreades. 



t Gills very crowded (vide Colhjbia confluens). 

 ß. Cartilaginei. Stem cartilagineous or almost horny, di- 

 stinctly fistulöse, polished or velvety-pruinate, generally 

 becoming bay-brown or sepia from base upward. 



a. Without smell. 



1. Cap, gills and apex of stem at first milkwhite. 5. M. globularis. 



2. Cap brownish or ochraceous-pallid. Gills wood-coloured 

 (pallid) or yellow. 



* Gills pallid, almost free. 



f Gills (especially on the edge) set with brown setulæ 



or borsts. Stem polished 6. M. cohcerens. 



ff Gills without borsts. Stem minutely velvety- 



pruinose 7. M. lupiiletoriim. 



| Gills decurrent, yellow: M. cauticinalis. 



b. Smelling of garlic. 



1. Stem polished, glabrous, fulvous-bay 8. M. scorodonius. 



2. Stem powdery or velvety. 



