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Marasmius rotula. Fr. 

 The Coixared Marasmius. 



Rotula means a little wheel. 



The pileus is one to three lines broad, hemispherical, umbilicate, and minutely 

 umbonate, plaited, smooth, membranaceous, margin crenate, white, or pale buff, 

 with a dark umbilicus. 



The gills are broad, distant, few, equal, or occasionally with a few short ones, 

 of the color of the pileus, attached to a free collar behind. 



Photo by C. G. Lloyd. 

 Figure 108. Marasmius rotula. Natural size. Caps white or pale-buff. 



