MARASMIUS 519 



1706. M. porreus (Pers.) Fr. Porrum, a leek. 

 P. 25 cm., dingy yellowish, pallid when dry, coriaceo-membrana- 



ceous, flaccid, convex, then flattened, obtuse; margin striate. St. 

 7-11 cm. x 3-5 mm., red-fuscous, paler at the apex, tough, pubescent, 

 somewhat thickened at both ends, villose at the base, containing a red 

 juice. Gills light yellowish, becoming pale, separating free, distant, 

 rather thick, tough, broadly linear, at length coriaceous. Flesh red- 

 dish. Spores white, pip-shaped, 8-9 x 5/z,, 2-many-guttulate. Smell 

 strong, of garlic. Deciduous woods. Sept. Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



**St. naked at base. 



1707. M. oreades (Bolt.) Fr. Cke. lUus. no. 1072, t. 1118. 



'O/jeta9, belonging to mountains. 



P. 2-6 cm., rufescent, then becoming pale, hygrophanous, whitish when 

 dry, fleshy, pliant, convex, then plane, subumbonate; margin striate 

 when moist. St. 4-10 cm. x 2-4 mm., pallid, very tough, equal, 

 everywhere clothed with a villose-woven cuticle. Gills pallid-white, free, 

 broad, distant, the alternate ones shorter, at first soft, then firmer. 

 Flesh pale-ochraceous. Spores white, elliptical, with an oblique basal 

 apiculus, 7-8 x 5/x. Smell and taste pleasant. Edible. In rings in 

 pastures, on lawns, and roadsides. May Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



1708. M. globularis Fr. (= Marasmius Wynnei B. & Br.) Trans. Brit 

 Myc. Soc. in, t. 13. Globularis, globular. 



P. 1-5-3 cm., milk white, then shining, often tinted with rose or 

 greyish violet, and finally fuscous violaceous, globose, then campanulate, 

 hygrophanous, pellucidly striate. St. 25 cm. x 34 mm., white, then 

 brownish at the base, flexuose, pulverulent. Gills white, then dingy, free, 

 distant, ventricose. Spores white, ovoid pruniform, 9 x 7/z,, 1-guttu- 

 late. Smell pleasant like that of Marasmius oreades. Taste mild. 

 Edible. Beech woods, and under beeches. Aug. Dec. Not un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



var. carpathicus (Kalchbr.) Cost. & Dufour. Kalchbr. Icon. t. 26, 

 fig. 4. Carpathicus, Carpathian. 



Differs from the type in the stem becoming blackish at the base. 

 On stumps and amongst dead leaves. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1709. M. plancus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1073, t. 1119, fig. A. 



Plancus, flat footed. 



P. 2-3 cm., rufescent, then becoming pale, thin, flexuose, plane, or 

 depressed, somewhat repand, obtuse. St. 3-5 cm. x 4-6 mm., pale 

 yellow, soon compressed, unequal, twisted, covered with a white villose 

 cortex ; base naked, somewhat attenuated. Gills yellow, then bright bay, 

 or rust colour, narrow, distant, becoming free. Taste mild. Deciduous 

 woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



