REPOR?T OF THE BOTANIST. 125 
equal, hollow, clothed with a dense grayish velvety tomen- 
tum ; plant often czespitose. 
Height 3’- 5’, breadth of pileus 8’’—-18”. 
Woods. Sandlake and Adirondack Mountains. July- 
October. 
*3. MARASMIUS PLANCUS FY. 
Pileus thin, expanded or slightly depressed, sometimes 
uneven and striatulate, dull rufous when moist, paler when 
dry, the disk often a little darker; lamelle distant, rounded 
at the inner extremity and separating from the stem, dull 
yellowish ; stipe firm, often compressed, especially at the top, 
stuffed or hollow, concolorous, whitish-pubescent. 
Height 24’, breadth of pileus about 1’. 
Woods. Common. June-August. 
4, MARASMIUS SCORODONIUS F7. 
Pileus thin, submembranaceous, expanded, subrugulose, 
erayish-rufous, the disk a little darker ; lamellee very narrow, 
close, rounded at the inner extremity, subfree, whitish or 
cream-colored ; stipe slender, tough, smooth, shining, hollow, 
reddish-brown, paler at the top ; plant with a fetid odor. 
Height 1’—2’, breadth of pileus 4’-6”. 
On sticks and decaying wood. Sandlake. August. 
The odor resembles that of skunk-cabbage. 
*5, Marasmius Roruia #7. 
Pileus membranaceous, dry, convex or expanded, umbili- 
cate, smooth, radiate-sulcate, whitish ; lamelle few, distant, 
broad, whitish, attached to a free collar surrounding the stem ; 
stipe slender, tough, smooth, shining, black, paler at the top, 
hollow. 
Height 1’— 2’, breadth of pileus 3’ 6”. 
On sticks, dead leaves, etc. Common. June-September. 
6. MARASMIUS SUBVENOSUS 2. Sp. 
Pileus membranaceous, dry, convex, subumbilicate, radiate- 
sulcate, smooth, white or yellowish; lamelle few, distant, 
sometimes branched and subvenose, concolorous, attached to 
the stipe; stipe tough, smooth, shining, brown, paler above, 
hollow. 
Height 8’’"-12”, breadth of pileus 2’ 4’, 
On dead herbaceous stems and leaves. Center. October. 
Closely related to IZ. epiphyllus, from which it differs in its 
smooth stem. (Plate 6, figs. 15-21.) 
