168 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



■the stem, with a yellow tinge ; eampanulately convex, obtuse, 

 Kometimes slightly depressed, glabrous, even at first then 

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

 more broad, connected by veins, yellow ; stem lJ-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 • 6 /t. 



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

 p. 350 ; Cke., lUustr., pi. 1134b. 



On pine leaves, &c. 



Distinguished by the yellow, slightly decurrent gills 

 connected by veins. 



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

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

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

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

 Oills distant with very few shorter ones, nearly free, 

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

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

 flexuous, filiform, clothed with red-brown woolly tomentum 

 or squamules, darker than the pileus, often perforating the 

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

 narrow fistulose line down the centre. (Berk.) 



B. Botulae. 

 * Stem glabrous, sMninj. 



Marasmius rotula. Fr. 



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

 umbilicate, plicate, entirely whitish or the disc darker; 

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

 ([uite free from the stem ; stem 1-1|^ in. long, very slender, 

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

 shaped, 6 X 3-4 /A. 



Marasmius rotula. Pries, Epicr., p. 385; Cke., Hdbk^ 

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



( 'n fallen twigs, &c. 



Kot to be confounded with any other of the smaller species 

 if attention is paid to the collar oonnecting the gills behind 

 being quite free from the stem. 



