MAEASMIUS. 16&' 



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

 phoid mycelinm, from which individuals spring at intervals. 



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

 Common. Pilens 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 fiiee collar surrounding the stem. Stem setiform,, 

 slightly flexuous, white above, then ta^wny, deep shining; 

 brown at the base, striate, iistulose, frequently branched 

 and sarmentose, ■with or without abortive pilei. (Berk.} 



Marasmius graminum. Berk. !^P'^ 



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

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

 tinged with rufous, the furrows paler, disc bro^wn; 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, whitisK 

 above ; spores subglobose, 3-4 fi diameter. 



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

 p. 351 ; Cke., lUustr., pi. 1129b. 



On grass, leaves, &c. 



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

 distantly sulcate pileus, and in gro^wing 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 li-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 3—4 jti. 



Marasmius aKdro«aceit«, Pries, Epicr., p. 385; Cke., Hdbk.„ 

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



On fallen leaves. 



Fries distinguished two principal forms: — (A) on deci- 

 duous leaves ; pileus whitish, deeply umbilicate, plicate ; 

 mycelium usually traversing the substance of the leaf; (S^ 



