518 MARASMIUS 



IV. Receptacle membranaceous, tough, reviving with moisture, 

 not putrescent. Spores white. 



*Pileus with a thin, unspecialized cellular pellicle. 



Marasmius Fr. 

 (fjiapaivo), I die away.) 



Pileus membranaceous, or coriaceous, regular, or resupinate. Stem 

 central, or wanting, cartilaginous, or horny. Gills adnate, adnexed, 

 decurrent, or free, pliant, rather tough. Spores white ; elliptical, pip- 

 shaped, oblong elliptical, almond-shaped, tear-drop-shaped, globose, 

 or subglobose; smooth, punctate, or echinulate; continuous. Cystidia 

 present, or absent. Growing on the ground, or on wood; solitary, 

 gregarious, caespitose, or fasciculate. 



A. Margin of p. incurved at first. St. cartilaginous. 

 Mycelium floccose. 



a. St. externally villose, or pruinose. Gills separating, free. 

 *St. woolly, or strigose, at the base. 



1704. M. urens (Bull.) Fr. (= Marasmius peronatus Bolt. sec. Quel.) 

 Gonnerm. & Rabenh. Heft. 8-9, t. 8, fig. 1. Urens, burning. 



P. 3-7-5 cm., deep yellow, or pinkish buff, becoming paler, disc 

 darker and often slightly depressed, slightly fleshy, convex, then 

 plane, here and there squamulose, or rimoso-squamulose when dry; 

 margin thin, involute. St. 45 cm. x 26 mm., concolorous, equal, or 

 slightly bulbous at the base, covered with white farinose down. Gills 

 pale wood colour, then brown, free, united behind, at length remote, 

 distant, tough. Flesh yellowish. Spores white, elliptical, or pip-shaped, 

 8 x 4/n, 1-2-guttulate. Taste very acrid. Woods. May Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



1705. M. peronatus (Bolt.) Fr. (= Marasmius urens Bull. sec. Quel.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 1070, t. 1117. 



Peronatus, wearing boots of untanned leather. 

 P. 3-6 cm., light yellowish, or pallid brick rufescent, then becoming 

 pale wood colour, or tan, at first fleshy-pliant, then coriaceo-membrana- 

 ceous, convex, then plane, obtuse, flaccid, slightly wrinkled, at length 

 lacunose; margin striate. St. 5-9 cm. x 2-6 mm., white, clothed with 

 dense white, or yellowish villose, strigose hairs in the basal third, at- 

 tenuated upwards, incurved at the base. Gills cream colour, then 

 pallid wood colour and rufescent, adnexed, then separating, free, 

 moderately thin, crowded. Flesh yellowish. Spores white, pip-shaped, 

 or tear-drop-shaped 7-10 x 4-5ju. Taste acrid. Woods. July Dec. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



