MARASMIUS 527 



what crowded. Flesh white, blackish in the stem. Spores white, pip- 

 shaped, guttulate. On tree trunks. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



1735. M. xerotoides von Post. Fr. Icon. t. 174, fig. 3. 



Xerotus, the genus Xerotus, etSo?, like. 



P. 4-8 mm., fuscous-umber and striate when moist, becoming pale 

 fuscous grey and somewhat undulate when dry, submembranaceous, 

 convex, obtuse, soon expanded and umbilicate; margin involute. St. 

 10-14 x 1 mm., grey or cinereous-fuscous, velvety; base swollen, and 

 strigose. Gills whitish, becoming cinereous, broadly adnate, subde- 

 current, distant, intermixed with shorter ones. Spores white, "ellip- 

 tical, 5 x 3p," Massee. On sandy soil in woods. Rare. 



1736. M. lagopinus von Post. Xa7<o<?, a hare. 



P. 2 cm., pallid, slightly fleshy, convex, then plane. St. 2-5 cm. x 

 1-2 mm., pallid, squamulose with white flocci for the lower half. Gills 

 pallid, adnate, somewhat ventricose. Spores "pale straw colour, sub- 

 globose, 3 x 2/x" Massee & Crossl. Dead branches, and on fir trunks. 

 Oct. Rare. 



1737. M. amadelphus (Bull.) Fr. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 130, fig. 2. 



a, with; aSeX(/>6?, brother. 



P. 6-12 mm., pale yellowish, becoming pale, margin whitish, fleshy- 

 menibranaceous, convex, hemispherical, then expanded and depressed, 

 or umbilicate, sulcately striate, pruinose under a lens. St. 1-1-5 cm. x 

 5-1 mm., concolorous, somewhat darker at the base, somewhat mealy 

 but becoming smooth, equal, undulate. Gills white, adnate, or sub- 

 decurrent, broad, distant, margin fimbriate. Spores white, oblong, 

 10-12 x 2-5/x. On trunks, and branches in coniferous woods. Sept. 

 Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



Fr. Insignis, striking. 



Differs from the type in the whitish, thinner pileus, and the more 

 distant, separating, pallid umber gills with tumid veins. On fir twigs. 



1738. M. ramealis (BuU.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1082, t. 1127, fig. B. 



Ramus, a branch. 



P. 6-15 mm., white, disc rufescent, somewhat fleshy, convex, then 

 plane, obtuse, or depressed, slightly wrinkled, minutely silky under a 

 lens. St. 6-10 x 1-2 mm., whitish, base rufescent, tubercular when 

 young, often incurved, mealy, squamulosely hairy under a lens. Gills 

 white, adnate, connected behind, slightly distant, narrow. Spores white, 

 elliptical, 8-10 x 3-4ja, minutely punctate. On dead twigs, branches, 

 and bramble stems in woods, hedgerows, and wood stacks. Jan. 

 Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



