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III. St. firm, rigid, somewhat tough, juiceless, somewhat strigose 

 and rooted at the base. Grills changing colour, white, then grey, 

 or reddish, commonly at length connected by veins. P. not 

 hygrophanous. Generally lignicolous and caespitose. 



M . cohaerens (A. & S.) Fr. = Marasmius cohaerens (A. & S.) Cke. 



1214. M. prolifera (Sow.) Fr. Sow. Eng. Fung. t. 169. 



Proles, offspring ;fero, I bear. 



P. 1-2 cm., pallid, disc fuscous, fleshy, campanulato-expanded, 

 broadly umbonate, dry, slightly striate; margin at length sulcate, or 

 rimosely split, pale yellowish, or becoming fuscous tan. St. 5-8 cm. x 

 4-5 mm., pallid, apex greyish, base tawny bay, firm, rigid, smooth, 

 shining, slightly striate, rooting, often proliferous. Gills white, then 

 ochraceous, adnexed. Flesh pallid, thin. Spores white. Densely 

 caespitose, glued together by villose down. Woods, and old logs in 

 gardens. July Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1215. M. excisa (Lasch) Gillet. Excisa, cut out. 

 P. 23 cm., brownish, rugulose, disc pallid fuscous, or greyish fuscous, 



membranaceous, campanulate, then convex, subumbonate, tough; 

 margin paler, striate. St. 3-4 cm. x 3-4 mm., greyish brown, be- 

 coming fuscous, apex paler, firm, tough, smooth, rooting. Gills paler 

 than the p., hoary, somewhat free, very attenuated at the base, ventri- 

 cose, connected by veins, very distant, thick. Flesh pallid, thick at the 

 disc. Spores white, broadly elliptical, 9-11 x 7-8 /x. Basidia with 

 4-sterigmata. Cystidia subulate, filiform, or bottle-shaped, rarely 

 furcate, base swollen, 20-30 x 10-15/Lt. Caespitose, rarely solitary. 

 On trunks and stumps of pine. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1216. ML fagetorum (Fr.) Gillet. Fagetum, a beech wood. 

 P. 1-2 cm., yellowish, pale livid, or fuliginous, membranaceous, 



campanulate, then convex, striate half way to the disc, smooth. St. 

 3-6 cm. x 3-4 mm., pallid, incurved, base villose, attached at right 

 angles to the beech leaves. Gills white, or glaucous, attenuated at the 

 base and attached to a collar. Spores white, "oblong elliptical, 9-5- 

 11 x 4-4-5/x. Cystidia few, small, insignificant, club, or pear-shaped, 

 their not much protruding free portion set with short setae" Lange. 

 Gregarious. On dead beech leaves. Sept. Nov. Notuncommon. (v.v.) 



1217. M. Berkley! Massee. Cke. Illus. no. 224, t. 148, as Mycena 

 excisa Lasch. 



The Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley, the founder of British mycology. 

 P. 3-7 cm., dingy brown, umbo darker, paler when dry, fleshy, cam- 

 panulate, then more or less expanded, slightly umbonate, slightly 

 and distantly striate to the umbo, hygrophanous. St. 8-13 cm. x 6- 

 8 mm., dingy brown with a purple tinge, almost equal, or slightly 



