MARASMIUS 523 



1721. M. pruinatus Eea. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. v, t. 8. 



Pruinatus, covered with hoar frost. 



P. 5-10 mm., white, becoming tinged with yellow, fleshy-horny, con- 

 vex, obtuse, or obsoletely papillate, pruinose; margin thin, incurved. 

 St. 1-5-3 cm. x 1-2 mm., white, equal, rigid, pruinose, base white 

 villose. Gills shining white, decurrent, very narrow, 1 mm. wide, sub- 

 distant. Flesh greyish, very tough, elastic. Spores white, pip-shaped, 

 elongated into a long acute point at one end, blunt and rounded at 

 the other, 9-12 x 4/z, with a large central gutta. Oak woods. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1722. M. archyropus (Pers.) Fr. (= Marasmius prasiosmus Fr. sec. 

 Quel.) Gonn. & Rabenh. t. 8, fig. 6. 



apyvpos, silver; TTOI;?, foot. 



P. 2-5 cm., tan colour, becoming pale, slightly fleshy, convex, then 

 plane, or depressed. St. 6-10 cm. x 2 mm., pallid rufescent under the 

 white tomentose pruina, which forms an outer covering, similar at the 

 base, rigid, tense, straight. Gills pallid, adnexed, separating, crowded, 

 linear. Flesh yellowish, deeper coloured in the stem. Spores white, 

 pip-shaped, 8-10 x 3-4/n, 1-3-guttulate. Deciduous woods. Sept. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1723. M. suaveolens Rea. (=Marasmius ingratus (Weinm.) Quel. var. 

 suaveolens Rea sec. Bataille.) Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. n, 1. 12, as 

 Marasmius archyropus (Pers.) Fr. var. suaveolens Rea. 



Suaveolens, sweet smelling. 



P. 4-56 cm., flesh colour, becoming pale, convex, then plane, or 

 depressed, tough; margin striate. St. 6-7 cm. x 2-3 mm., reddish, 

 apex paler, everywhere covered with a white tomentose pruina, be- 

 coming twisted when dried. Gills pallid, then fuscous, adnexed, sepa- 

 rating, crowded, 6-8 mm. wide, ventricose. Flesh whitish in the pileus, 

 reddish in the stem. Spores white, globose, 3-4/x. Smell very pleasant, 

 like Marasmius oreades. Beech woods, and under beeches. Sept. 

 Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1724. M. torquescens Quel. Quel. Jur. et'Vosg. i, t. 22, fig. 3. 



Torquescens, becoming twisted. 



P. 1-2 cm., pallid, disc tawny, membranaceous, thin, convex, then 

 plane, striate, then sulcate. St. 4-6 cm. x 1-2 mm., brown, apex 

 smooth and whitish, delicately velvety, twisted and sulcate when dry, 

 white floccose at the base. Gills white, then reddish, free, thin, ventri- 

 cose, distant, minutely serrulate. Flesh whitish, reddish in the stem. 

 Spores white, almond-shaped, 9-10 x 6-7 fi. On twigs in woods, and 

 hedgerows. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



