MARASMIUS 521 



1714. M. terginus Fr. (= Marasmius Stephensii Berk. sec. Fr.) Fr. 

 Icon. t. 174, fig. 4. Tergum, hide. 



P. 1-3 cm., flesh colour when moist, whitish when dry, shining, 

 tough, slightly fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, at length somewhat 

 depressed ; margin striate when moist. St. 5-8 cm. x 2-4 mm., pallid 

 upwards, reddish downwards, slightly attenuated upwards, longi- 

 tudinally fissile, white villose at the rooting base. Grills pallid, separating 

 free, somewhat crowded, narrow. Flesh white. Spores white, elliptical, 

 6-7 x 4jit, punctate. Taste mild. Edible. Amongst leaves, and on 

 twigs in deciduous woods. Oct. Nov. Uncommon. 



1715. M. esculentus (Wulf.) Karst. (= Cottybia esculenta (Wulf.) Fr.; 

 Collybia conigena Fr. (non Pers.) sec. Bres. ; Collybia clavus 

 SchaefL sec. Quel.) Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 198, fig. 1. 



Esculentus, edible. 



P. 1-2-5 cm., lurid ochraceous, or pale yellowish, somewhat fleshy, 

 convex, then plane, moist, sometimes subumbonate; margin at first 

 pellucidly striate. St. 2-7 cm. x 2-4 mm., white, then concolorous, 

 equal, apex pruinose; base long, rooting, tomentosely fibrillose. Gills 

 white, often becoming yellowish at the edge, rounded behind, adnexed, 

 crowded. Spores white, oblong, 5-6 x 2-3/z. Cystidia capitate at the 

 apex, ventricosely fusiform, 40-66 x 10-18/*, very thick walled. 

 Taste slightly bitter. Edible. On buried cones of conifers in woods, 

 and plantations. Sept. May. Common, (v.v.) 



1716. M. conigenus (Pers.) Karst. (= Collybia conigena (Pers.) Bres.; 

 Collybia tenacella Fr. and Collybia stolonifera Jungh. sec. Bres.) 

 Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 198, fig. 2. 



KWVOS, a cone; ytyvofiat, to be born. 



P. 1-3 cm., fuscous, then paler, very rarely white, somewhat fleshy, 

 convex, or conico-campanulate, then expanded and subumbonate or 

 plane, moist. St. 2-6 cm. x 2-3 mm., white, soon ochraceous, equal, 

 apex white mealy; base long, rooting, tomentosely fibrillose. Gills 

 cinereous, then white, often becoming yellowish, sinuato-adnexed, 

 crowded. Spores white, oblong, depressed on one side, 4-5 x 2-5- 

 3/u.. Cystidia ventricosely fusiform, 48-72 x 10-14/i, thick walled. 

 Taste slightly bitter. Edible. On buried cones of conifers in woods, 

 and plantations. Sept. May. Common, (v.v.) 



**St. (at least when dry) everywhere pruinosely velvety. 

 M. Wynnei B. & Br. = Marasmius globularis Fr. 



1717. M. erythropus (Pers.) Fr. (= Collybia erythropus (Pers.) Quel.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 1077, t. 1123, fig. B. epvdpos, red; TTOVS, foot. 



P. 2-3 cm., pallid, becoming whitish when dry, hygrophanous, 

 slightly fleshy, convex, then plane, obtuse, slightly wrinkled when 



