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edge acute. Spores white, pip-shaped, 67 x 4 5/z, with a large 

 central gutta. On twigs, and amongst leaves in woods, and hedgerows. 

 May Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



1412. 0. polyadelpha (Lasch) Fr. Cke. Ulus. no. 1088, t. 1137, fig. B, 



as Marasmius polyadelphus Lasch. 



7roXua8eX<o<?, with many brothers. 



Entirely snow-white. P. 2-3 mm., very tender, hemispherical, um- 

 bilicate, sulcate, pruinose, tomentose under a lens. St. 10-15 x 1 mm., 

 filiform, curved, flaccid, pruinose, thickened and floccose at the base. 

 Gills decurrent, very narrow, wrinkle-like, distant. Spores white, 

 "fusiform-lanceolate, 79 x 3-4^i" Rick. Fasciculate, and in troops. 

 On dead oak, and beech leaves. Oct. Dec. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1413. 0. Nevillae Berk. Lady Dorothy Neville. 

 P. 1-1-5 cm., brown, hemispherical, disc depressed, rugose, minutely 



granulated, striate, margin becoming pale. St. 23 cm. x 1 mm., 

 brownish, rough with black granules, base rather dilated and clothed 

 with villose hairs. Gills white, arcuato-decurrent, interstices and sides 

 venoso-rugose. Flesh of stem white. Spores white. On Sphagnum, in 

 an orchid pot. 



Spores pink. 



EccUia Fr. 



(eyoiXo5, hollowed out.) 



Pileus fleshy, or submembranaceous, umbilicate; margin incurved. 

 Stem central, cartilaginous. Gills decurrent. Spores pink, angular, 

 continuous. Cystidia rarely present. Growing on the ground, rarely 

 on wood. 



1414. E. parkensis Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 100, fig. 5. 



Parkensis, belonging to a park. 



P. 2-3 cm., fuscous when moist, blackish when dry, membranaceous, 

 plano-convex, deeply umbilicate, slightly striate to the middle. St. 

 2-5 cm. x 1-2 mm., fuscous, attenuated downwards. Gills whitish, 

 then becoming dingy, flesh colour, decurrent, crowded, linear, 1-2 mm. 

 wide. Spores pink, subspheroid-angled, irregular, 6-9/z, 1-guttulate, 

 Grassy places, pastures, and roadsides. July Aug. Uncommon. 



1415. E. carneogrisea B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 368, t. 380, lower figs. 



Carneus, fleshy; grisea, grey. 



P. 2-3 cm., grey-flesh-colour, umbilicate, striate, delicately dotted ; 

 margin slightly glittering with dark particles. St. 4 cm. x 2-3 mm., 

 concolorous, shining, base white-tomentose. Gills rosy, adnato-de- 

 current, somewhat undulated, the irregular margin darker, distant. 

 Spores pink, angular, elliptical, 8-9 x 6ju,, 1-2-guttulate. Amongst fir 

 leaves, and grass. July Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



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