MARASMIUS HUDSONI Fr. 



HUDSON'S MARASMIUS. 



This very curious Plant wliicli is here represented of its natural size, 

 gi'ows upon dead holly leaves. The Agaric is very small in size, and the 

 pileus is thickly set with purple-brown bristles. Under the higher powers 

 of the microscope its singular beauty is brought out in perfection. The 

 whole Plant is thus seen to be covered with bristles and gkn<lular hairs, on 

 the gills the simjde glandular hairs become developed into papillose cystids. 

 The gills themselves are narrow, simple, and white. {Cooke's " British 

 Fungi"' p. 240— No 678) 



This interesting Plant was found growing under a holly tree in the 

 Belmont grounds, near Hereford, on one of the Fungus Forays of the 

 ""Woolhupc (.lub," Oolobor, 1873. 



