THE WHITB-SPORED AGARICS 



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Marasmius epiphyllas. Fr. 

 The Leaf Marasmius. Edible. 



Epiphyllus means growing on leaves. 



The pileus is white, membranaceous, nearly plane, at length umbilicate, 

 smooth, wrinkled, plicate. 



The gills are firmly attached to the stem, white, connected by veins, entire, 

 distant, few. 



The stem is rather horny, bay, minutely velvety, apex pale, inserted. The 

 spores are 3x2/x. This plant is abundant everywhere, on fallen leaves in woods 

 during rainy weather. July to October. , 



Marasmius delectans. Morgan. 



Delectans means pleasing 

 or delightful. 



The pileus is subcoriace- 

 ous, convex, then expanded 

 and depressed, glabrous, 

 rugulose, white, changing 

 in drying to pale alutaceous. 



The gills are moderately 

 broad, unequal, rather dis- 

 tant, trabeculate betiween, 

 white, emarginate, ad- 

 nexed ; the spores are lance- 

 oblong, hyaline, 7-9x4^. 



The stem, arising from 

 an abundant white-floccose 

 mycelium, is long, slender, 

 tapering slightly upward, 

 smooth, brown and shining, 

 white at the apex. 



It is found growing on 

 old leaves in woods. The 

 plants in the figure were 

 collected in the woods at 

 Sugar Grove, Ohio, by R. 

 A. Young, July 28, 1906, 

 and photographed by Dr. 

 Kellerman. Found from 

 July to October. 



Figure 114. Marasmius delectans. Natural size. Caps white. 

 Gills broad and distant. 



