168 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



the stem, with a yellow tinge ; campanulately convex, obtuse,, 

 sometimes slightly depressed, glabrous, even at first then 

 coarsely striate, tawny ; gills adnately decurrent, J line or 

 more broad, connected by veins, yellow ; stem l|-2 in. long,. 

 1 line thick, slightly attenuated upwards, minutely floccu- 

 lose, bay, paler and powdery upwards, fistulose but con- 

 taining a pith ; spores elliptical, 7 x 3 5 /x. 



Marasmius cauticinalis, Fries, Epicr., p. 383 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 350; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1134s. 



On pine leaves, &c. 



Distinguished by the yellow, slightly decurrent gills 

 connected by veins. 



Pileus 2-7 lines broad, convex at first and minutely umbo- 

 nate, then expanded, depressed, or umbilicate, whitish, with 

 small red-brown scales, disposed sometimes in zones, render- 

 ing the margin jagged; in large specimens it is sulcate. 

 Gills distant with very few shorter ones, nearly free,, 

 ihickish, of a yellow tinge, various in breadth, sometimes 

 rather ventricose. Stem |-1| in. high, not ^ a line thick, 

 flexuous, filiform, clothed with red-brown woolly tomentum 

 or squamules, darker than the pileus, often perforating the 

 Kubstance on which it grows, composed of fibres, with a 

 narrow fistulose line down the centre. (Berk.) 



B. Rotulas. 



* Stem glabrous, sltininj. 



Marasmius rotula. Fr. 



Pileus about \ in. across, membranaceous ; slightly convex, 

 umbilicate, plicate, entirely whitish or the disc darker; 

 gills few, broad, distant, joined behind to a collar that is- 

 quite free from the stem ; stem 1-1 J in. long, very slender, 

 equal, horny, shining, quite glabrous", blackish ; spores pip- 

 shaped, 6 x 3-4 fi. 



Marasmius rotula, Fries, Epicr., p. 385: Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 351 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1129A. 



( >n fallen twigs, &c. 



Not to be confounded with any other of the smaller species 

 if attention is paid to the collar connecting the gills behind 

 Leing quite free from the stem. 



