524 MARASMIUS 



1725. M. obtusifolius Kea. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. vi, t. 7. 



Obtus, blunt ; folius, leaf, gill. 



P. 1 cm., whitish, disc tawny, membranaceous, convexo-plane, with 

 a prominent umbo, smooth, sulcate; margin at first incurved. St. 

 3-4 cm. x 1 mm., tawny, apex white, equal, minutely velvety. Gills 

 pallid, adnate to a collar behind, 2 mm. wide, distant, simple ; edge 

 very obtuse, blunt, ciliate with the prominent cystidia. Flesh white, 

 tough, thin. Spores white, broadly oval, or subglobose, 14-15 x 

 10-1 2 [j,, with a large central gutta, thick walled; basidia clavate, 

 40-60 x 18-23/A, with 2-4-sterigmata. Cystidia abundant, fusiform, 

 ventricose, 95-145 x 17-25/i, apex capitate, 14-18/x, thin walled. 

 Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1726. M. impudicus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1078, t. 1124, fig. B. 



Impudicus, disgusting. 



P. 1-3 cm., bay-brown-rufous, tinted with purple or lilac, becoming 

 pale when dry, slightly fleshy at the disc, convex, then plane, often 

 depressed in the centre, membranaceous, striato-plicate. St. 5 cm. x 

 2 mm., rufous, or rufous-fuscous when moist, sometimes violaceous- 

 purple, wholly covered over with white villose down when dry, equal, 

 often compressed, tough, flexile, rooting at the attenuated base. Gills 

 flesh colour, or greyish, then whitish, at first reaching the stem, then 

 free, truncate behind, connected by veins, ventricose, at first crowded, 

 then distant. Spores white, elliptical, 8 x 4-5 /u,, "minutely echinu- 

 late" Quel. Smell strong, disgusting, resinous. On pine trunks, and 

 needles in coniferous woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 

 ***St. smooth. 



1727. M. dryophilus (Bull.) Karst. (= Collybia dryophila (Bull.) Fr.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 206, t. 204, as Collybia dryophila Fr. 



Bpv<;, oak; </>tXo9, loving. 



P. 2-4 cm., bay-brown-rufous, yellow, ochraceous, or white, becoming 

 pale, slightly fleshy, tough, convexo-plane, obtuse, disc generally de- 

 pressed. St. 4-7 cm. x 2-4 mm., whitish, becoming yellow, or rufescent, 

 cartilaginous, somewhat rooting. Gills white, or becoming pale, some- 

 what free, crowded, narrow. Flesh white, thin. Spores white, elliptical, 

 5-6 x 3-4/Lt. Woods, pastures, and hedgerows. May Nov. Com- 

 mon, (v.v.) 



var. fonicularis (Fr.) Rea. (= Collybia dryophila (Bull.) Fr. var. 

 funicularis Fr.) Funiculus, a slender rope. 



Larger than the type, caespitose. St. lax, decumbent, villose at the 



base. Gills sulphur-yellow. Spores white, elliptical, 6 x 3jn. Woods, 



and pastures. May Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. auratus (Quel.) Rea. (= Collybia dryophila (Bull.) Fr. var. 



aurata Quel.) Auratus, golden. 



