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1743. M. cohaerens (A. & S.) Cke. (== Marasmius ceratopus Pers. 

 sec. Quel.) Fr. Icon. t. 79, fig. 1, as Mycena cohaerens Fr. 



Cohaerens, sticking together. 



P. 2-3 cm., cinnamon, or umber-tawny, becoming pale, slightly 

 fleshy, campanulate, obtuse, pruinose, velvety under a lens. St. 10- 

 12 cm. x 4 mm., bay brown, horny, very rigid, shining, apex whitish, 

 pruinose, caespitoso-fasciculate, base date-brown, glued together with 

 white villose down. Gills white, becoming pale, sprinkled with fulvous 

 bristles under a lens, rounded behind, somewhat free, distant, generally 

 connected by veins, very broad. Spores white, "lanceolate, 8-9 x 4/n. 

 Cystidia brown, fusiform-subulate, very pointed, 60-100 x 7-14/z, 

 thick walled" Rick. On trunks, and amongst leaves in deciduous 

 woods. Oct. Feb. Uncommon. 



1744. M. cauticinalis (With.) Fr. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 41, fig. 2. 



Cautes, a rough pointed rock. 



P. 12 cm., dingy yellow, becoming ferruginous, then ochraceous, 

 membranaceous, thin, pliant, campanulate, then convex, obtuse, at 

 length plane, umbilicate, and striato-sulcate. St. 3-5 cm. x 2-3 mm., 

 bay brown, paler and mealy upwards, rigid, tough, floccoso-villose at 

 the tubercular base, and arising from a filiform, dark bay mycelium. 

 Gills pallid light yellow, adnato-decurrent, subdistant, connected by a 

 network of veins. Flesh yellow, or rufescent. Spores white, pip-shaped, 

 6-7 x 3-4ju,, 1-guttulate. Amongst needles in coniferous woods. 

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



1745. M. torquatus Fr. Torquatus, adorned with a collar. 



P. 1-2 cm., whitish, or greyish white, truly campanulate, 1-2 cm. 

 high, membranaceous, tough, obtuse; margin plicato-sulcate. St. 3 

 4 cm. x 2 mm., whitish, equal, shining, base generally fuscous, arising 

 from a minute, round tubercle. Gills white, adnate to a free collar, con- 

 nected by veins, distant, ascending, unequal. Flesh of pileus pale 

 yellow. Spores white. On stems, and leaves. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



1746. M. scorodonius Fr. (= Marasmius alliatus Schaeff. sec. Quel.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 1079, t. 1125, fig. A. o-xopoSov, garlic. 



P. 1-2 cm., rufous, soon becoming pale whitish, membranaceous, 

 pliant, convex, soon plane, obtuse, at length wrinkled and crisped. 

 St. 2-5 cm. x 1-2 mm., rufous, shining, horny, tough, equal, inserted 

 and naked at the base. Gills whitish, adnate, often separating, con- 

 nected by veins, crowded, narrow. Spores white, "lanceolate, 5-7 x 

 3 /A" Rick. Smell strong, of garlic. Edible. On twigs, and needles, 

 on heaths, and in pine woods. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



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