FUNGUS-FLORA. 



; and beset with white bristles ; gills white, distant, annexed, 

 slightly ventricose, connected behind ; edge quite entire. 



Agaricus (Collybia) Dorotheae, Berk., Grevillea, i. p. 88 ; 

 -Cke., Hdbk., p. 75. 



On dead fern stem, in a hothouse, Dangstein. 



MAKASMIUS. Fries. 



Pileus regular, thin, tough and pliant; gills pliant and 

 rather tough, somewhat distant, variously attached or free, 

 edge thin and quite entire, often connected by veins ; stem 

 cartilaginous or horny, continuous with the substance of the 

 pileus, but differing in structure. The species are tough, 

 dry, shrivelling and drying up (not putrescent), and ex- 

 panding when moistened. 



Marasmius, Fries, Epicr., p. 372 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 344. 



A very distinct genus, but distinguished more especially 

 by biological characters, and differing from Collybia and 

 Mycena, its nearest allies, by not deliquescing at maturity, 

 l>ut drying up and again assuming the original form when 

 moistened. The species are comparatively rare in temperate 

 regions, but are numerous in the tropics, where tke gills are 

 -often narrow, very distant, and connected by prominent 

 veins. Many species have a smell resembling garlic. 



M.st species grow on wood, branches, or leaves. 



ANALYSIS OF THE SPECIES. 



I. COLLYBIARII. 



Flesh of pileus pliant, at length somewhat coriaceous, 

 .-grooved or wrinkled, margin incurved at first ; stem some- 

 -what cartilaginous ; mycelium woolly, absent in only very 

 .few species. 



A. Scortei. 



Stem solid, or stuffed then hollow, fibrous inside, outside 

 -the cartilaginous cuticle is covered with down; gills 

 :*c-rarating from the stem and becoming free. 



