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MARASMTESl. 



Marasmius peronatus, (Bolton). " A rare species here ; grows 

 in the deep and moist parts of woods, amongst the 



fallen oak leaves. The specimens grew in a little 



wood, called Trough of Bolland, in Northowram, near 

 Halifax, Sept. ioth, 1787'' — Bolton, Tab. 58. Pck. 

 Wd, H. Gr., Cr. Dm— J.N. Lud. Dm, N. D. Wd.— 

 U.B. Stainl., etc. ! Not uncommon at present among 

 dead oak-leaves in woods. 



M. oreades, (Bolton) Fr. Bolton, Tab. 151. Fairy-ring 

 mushroom. Edible. Common ; most frequently 

 found in ' fairy-rings.' 



M. prasiosmus, Fr. On beech leaf-mould, Mdgh., Heb. 

 Bdg. — Nat., Sept. 1892. 



M. candidus, (Bolton). " Grows in Woodhouse Wood, but 

 is rare there " — Bolton, Tab. 39, f. d. " The figure in 

 the Tab. above referred to [39 d] being taken from 

 poor and mean specimens, and the plant a rare one, I 

 thought it could not be amiss to add another figure as 

 on Tab. 206, which is taken from well-grown specimens 



as I gathered them on rotten stems in Elland 



Park [Wood] Sept. 1792" — Bolton, unpublished 



Tab. 206, Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Collection, No. 1414. 



M. ramealis, (Bull.) Fr. Not uncommon on dead twigs in 

 moist woods. H. Gr., Hdc, Elland Hall Wd., 

 etc.— J.N. ! 



M. rotula, (Scop.) Fr. Cr. Dm, H. Gr.— J.N. El. Pk. Wd. ! 



M. graminum, Lib. Elland Hall Wd., iSgS—H.T.S. 



M. androsaceus, (L.) Fr. " Grows on putrid leaves, chiefly 

 those of oak in the shady, moist parts of woods about 

 Halifax ; it also grows on moors, among rushes. I 

 saw it in great abundance in Sept. this year, 1787, on 



the hill above Causey Foot ; it grew upon the 



stalks of decayed rushes, in the place w T here the Trien- 

 talis europcea and the Ophrys cor data grow "—Bolton, Tab. 

 32. Still common on dead leaves and decaying 

 herbaceous stems. 



M. saccharinus, Fr. N. D. Wd. ! 



M. epiphyllus, Fr. Bolton, Tab. 39A. 



Lentinus tigrinus, (Bull.) " In a wood in Southowram and 

 sent to me in a half dried state and wanting the root.... 

 I make no doubt of its being the Agavicus tigrinus of 



