520 MARASMIUS 



1710. M. scorteus Fr. Cke. lUus. no. 1073, t. 1119, fig. B. 



Scorteus, made of leather. 



P. 6-10 mm., pallid, often whitish, slightly fleshy, convex, then 

 plane, obtuse, at length rugulose. St. 2-5 cm. x 12 mm., white, be- 

 coming fuscous and contorted when dry, equal, delicately pruinose at 

 the apex, tough. Gills white, quite free, remarkably broad, rounded 

 behind, ventricose. Spores white, elliptical, 8 x 6/u,. Taste mild. De- 

 ciduous woods, moist places, and amongst grass under trees. Aug. 

 Jan. Uncommon. 



b. St. rooting, distinctly cartilaginous. Gills separa ting-free. 

 *St. woolly downwards, smooth upwards. 



1711. M. prasiosmus Fr. (= Marasmius archyropus Pers. sec. Quel.) 



Trpda-ov, a leek; 007x77, smell. 



P. 1-3 cm., pale dingy yellow, or whitish, disc darker, submembrana- 

 ceous, campanulate, then convex and plane, obtuse, rugulose ; margin 

 striate when moist. St. 5-8 cm. x 2 mm., pallid, becoming reddish 

 at the base, equal, tough, tomentose, thickened and often incurved at 

 the base, and adherent to the leaves. Gills white, then pallid, slightly 

 adnexed, somewhat crowded. Spores white, pip-shaped, 9-10 x 4- 

 5/A, 1-many-guttulate. Cystidia none. Smell and taste strqng, of garlic, 

 persistent. Edible. Beech woods. July Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1712. M. varicosus Fr. (= Marasmius fuscopurpureus Pers. sec. 

 Quel.) Boud. Icon. t. 72. Varicosus, full of dilated veins. 



P. 1-3 cm., fuscous purple, becoming darker when dry, submem- 

 branaceous, pliant, campanulate, then convex and plane, umbonate, 

 even. St. 36 cm. x 24 mm., rubiginous, blackish when dry, filled 

 with dark blood-coloured juice, which forms drops when it is broken, very 

 minutely tomentose, often longitudinally grooved; base reddish, 

 strigose. Gills white, then becoming concolorous with the pileus, adnate, 

 or almost free, very crowded, linear, very narrow. Flesh concolorous. 

 Spores white, elliptical, 4-5 x 2-5-3jLc. Damp mossy places. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1713. M. fuscopurpureus (Pers.) Fr. (= Marasmius varicosus Fr. sec. 

 Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 1075, t. 1121, fig. B. 



Fuscus, dark; purpureus, purple. 



P. 1-3 cm., dark purple, becoming pale when dry, slightly fleshy, at 

 first hemispherical, then plane, obsoletely umbilicate, slightly wrinkled. 

 St. 2-5-8 cm. x 2-4 mm., pallid, then rufous, or dark purple, sheathed 

 towards the base with strigose, rubiginous down. Gills rufescent, ad- 

 nexed in the form of a ring, then free, distant, narrow. Flesh dark 

 coloured. Spores white, elliptical, 4 x 3/u, 1-guttulate. Cystidia none. 

 Oak, and beech woods. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



