152 FUNGUS-FLOBA. 



and beset -witli wliite bristles ; gills white, distant, annexed, 

 ■eliglitly ventricose, connected behind ; edge quite entire. 



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

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 75. 



On dead fern stem, in a hotbouse, Dangstein. 



MAEASMIUS. 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 

 pilaus, 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 

 'hj biological characters, and differing from Gollyhia and 

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

 but 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 the gills are 

 often narrow, very distant, and connected by prominent 

 -yeins. Many species have a smell resembling garlic. 



Most species grow on wood, branches, or leaves. 



ANALYSIS OF TEE 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 

 -separating from the stem and becoming free. 



