MARASMIUS. 169- 



There is often a blackish, creeping cord-like or rhizomor- 

 phoid mycelium, from which individuals spring at intervals. 



On sticks, stumps, dead leaves, &c. The whole year. 

 Common. Pileus 1-3 lines broad, hemispherical, umbilicate,, 

 and minutely umbonate, plaited, smooth, margin crenate, 

 white or pale buff with a dark umbilicus. Gills broad- 

 distant, equal, or occasionally with a few short ones of the 

 same colour as the pileus, connate behind and separating 

 from the stem so as to present the appearance of being fixed 

 to a free collar surrounding the stem. Stem setiform,. 

 slightly flexuous, white above, then tawny, deep shining, 

 brown at the base, striate, fistulose, frequently branched 

 and sarmentose, with or without abortive pilei. (Berk.) 



Marasmius graminum. Berk. 



Pileus 4-6 lines across, membranaceous, convex then nearly 

 plane, umbonate, deeply and distantly striate or sulcate,. 

 tinged with rufous, the furrows paler, disc brown ; gills 

 attached to a collar that is free round the stem, few in- 

 number, slightly ventricose, cream-colour; stem 1-2 in. 

 long, very slender, equal, smooth, shining, black, whitish 

 above ; spores subglobose, 3-4 /A diameter. 



Marasmius graminum, Berk., Outl., pi. 14, f. 8 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

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



On grass, leaves, &c. 



Allied to M. rotula but distinguished by the pale rufescent,. 

 distantly sulcate pileus, and in growing on grass. 



Marasmius androsaceus. Fr. 



Pileus up to | in. across, membranaceous dry, umbilicate,, 

 glabrous, striate, whitish ; gills directly adnate to the stem 

 without the intervention of a collar, simple, distinct, distant,, 

 narrow, whitish ; stem 1|-2| in. long, very slender and 

 tough, equal, absolutely glabrous and polished, black ; 

 twisted and striate, due to contraction, when dry ; spores- 

 pip-shaped, 7 x 34 /*. 



Marasmius androsaceus, Fries, Epicr., p. 385 ; Cke., Hdbk. r 

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



On fallen leaves. 



Fries distinguished two principal forms : (4) on deci- 

 duous leaves ; pileus whitish, deeply umbilicate, plicate 

 mycelium usually traversing the substance of the leaf; 



