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1038. C. laxipes (Batt.) Fr. (= Marasmius laxipes (Batt.) Quel.) 

 Quel. Jur. et Vosg. n, t. 2, fig. 2. Laxus, loose; pes, foot. 



P. 1-3 cm., whitish, often yellowish at the disc, slightly fleshy, con- 

 vexo-plane, obtuse, smooth, moist, sometimes striate. St. 6-12 cm. 

 x 2-4 mm., rufous, lax, stiff, velvety, apex white pruinose, channelled, 

 and twisted when dry. Gills milk white, separating free, broad, ventri- 

 cose, distant. Flesh white, rufous in the st., thin. Spores white, ellip- 

 tical, 5-6 x 3/i, 1-guttulate. Amongst pine chips, twigs, and on 

 wood. Feb. Sept. Not common, (v.v.) 



1039. C. mimica W. G. Sm. Cke. IUus.no. 192, 1. 129. Mimica, mimic. 

 P. 2-4 cm., pale yellow-buff, disc brownish buff, slightly fleshy, 



plane, smooth, with a thin separable cuticle. St. 5 cm. x 3-4 mm., 

 deep brown, apex yellow buff and smooth, or slightly pruinose, base 

 fibrillose, fibrillosely striate in the middle. Gills dingy ochraceous, 

 very broad, subdistant. Flesh rufous, very thin. Spores white, ellip- 

 tical, 8 x 4-5/u,. Smell and taste strong, like fish. Amongst deal 

 shavings. Nov. Uncommon. 



1040. C. floccipes Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1142, t. 1168. 



Floccus, a flock of wool; pes, foot. 



P. 1-2 cm., fuliginous black, becoming livid, rather fleshy, campanu- 

 late, then convex, umbonate, smooth. St. 3-5 cm. x 23 mm., pallid, 

 equal, straight, rooting, rough with black, punctiform, fioccose scales. 

 Gills white, adnexed, ventricose, thick, subdistant. Flesh white, greyish 

 under the cuticle of the p., thin. Spores " white, subglobose, promi- 

 nently apiculate, 56 x 4 5fj,. Cystidia abundant, narrowly lan- 

 ceolate, 60-90 x 7-11/i, apex subobtuse " Kauffm. On the ground, 

 and about trunks, in beech woods. Sept. Rare. 

 C. undata Berk. = Marasmius undatus (Berk.) Quel. 

 C. vertirugis Cke. = Marasmius undatus (Berk.) Quel. 

 C. stipitaria Fr. = Crinipellis stipitarius (Fr.) Pat. 



1041. C. leucomyosotis Cke. & Smith. Cke. Illus. no. 1144, t. 651. 



\evfc6s, white; Myosotis, the Forget-me-not. 

 P. 2'5 3 cm., pale mouse-grey, disc darker, paler at the margin, the 

 whole plant becoming pallid, almost white when dry, fleshy, convex, then 

 expanded, sometimes obtusely umbonate; margin faintly striate. 

 St. 10-13 cm. x 4-6 mm., pallid, equal, very brittle, apex slightly 

 pruinose, base white, obtuse. Gills white, adnate, sinuate behind, 

 thick, subdistant. Flesh dingy, rather thick. Spores white, elliptical, 

 6-7 x 4/i, 1-guttulate. Cystidia flask-shaped, apex obtuse, 3-3'5^t 

 in. diam., 25-30 x 7/i. Smell strong, rather fragrant. On Sphagnum 

 in bogs. May Sept. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



** Gills very narrow, crowded. 

 C. hariolorum (DC.) Fr. = Marasmius hariolorum (DC.) Quel. 



