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pulverulent with white mealy squamules at the apex, base white- villous. 

 Gills light yellow cinereous, adnate, separating, broad, rather thick, 

 convex, undulated when old, edge slightly toothed with greenish yellow 

 floccules ("pulverulent with crystalline particles under a lens" Quel.). 

 Flesh pallid, thin. Spores ochraceous, elliptical, 8-10 x 6/u,. Cystidia 

 "undulating-clavate, or fusiform-capitate, 30-36 x 4-6 //," Kick. 

 Gregarious, or caespitose. Eotten wood, especially beech. Oct. Bare. 



1106. N. horizontals (Bull.) Fr. (= Galera horizontal (Bull.) Quel.) 

 Cke. nius. no. 495, t. 601, fig. B. Horizontalis, horizontal. 



Entirely watery cinnamon. P. 5-15 mm., fleshy, convexo-plane, 

 obtuse, smooth. St. 6-12 x 2 mm., incurved, smooth. Gills rounded, 

 free, plane, broad, subdistant. Flesh concolorous, paler, thin. Spores 

 ferruginous, punctate, broadly elliptical, 6-8 x 5-6/n. Cystidia cla- 

 vate, or conical, flexuose, 20-35 x 2-4/t. On bark of elm, and pear 

 trees. Nov. Dec. Rare, (v.v.) 



1107. N. rimulincola (Lasch) Rabenh. (= Galera horizontal^ (Bull.) 

 Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 496, t. 509, fig. B. 



Rimula, a small crack; colo, I inhabit. 



Entirely cinnamon. P. 10-12 mm., hemispherical, umbilicate, pli- 

 cate, slightly wrinkled, tomentose. St. 10-12 x 2 mm., somewhat ex- 

 centric, incurved, somewhat thickened at the base. Gills adnexed, 

 thick, very broad, subdistant, edge whitish crenulate. Flesh white, thin. 

 Spores "cinnamon, elliptical, 10 x 5/x" Massee. On elm, and pear 

 twigs. Oct. Dec. Rare. 



1108. N. semiflexa B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 496, t. 509, fig. A. 



Semi, half; flexa, bent. 



P. 12 mm., chestnut, hygrophanous, fleshy, subcampanulate, then 

 hemispherical, or flattened ; margin adorned with the delicate white veil. 

 St. 6-18 x 1-2 mm., pale, semi-horizontal. Gills tawny, adnexed, 

 rather broad, distant. Flesh white, thin. Spores "amber, elliptical, 

 8 x 5/A, verrucose" Massee. On wood, and on the ground. Oct. Rare. 



N. rubricata B. & Br. = Marasmius nibricatus (B. & Br.) Massee. 



**Gills adnate, p. convexo-plane. 



1109. N. abstrusa Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 122, fig. 2. Abstrusa, hidden. 

 P. 2-4 cm., ferruginous clay, fleshy, convex, then plane, orbicular, 



smooth, viscid. St. 2-5-3-5 cm. x 2-4 mm., pallid ferruginous, base 

 darker, very cartilaginous, tough, rigid, equal, round, tense, straight, 

 polished, naked. Gills watery ferruginous, or cinnamon, adnate, plane, 

 crowded. Flesh concolorous, becoming pale, thin at the margin. Spores 

 ferruginous, "elliptical, 10 x 5/u," Sacc. Woods, and on sawdust. Oct. 

 Uncommon. 



