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Eeadily distinguished by the brown pileus marked with 

 darker, radiating lines. Not striate. 



Marasmius saccharinus. Batsch. 



Pilens 1-2 lines broad, membranaceous ; convex, minutely 

 papillate, glabrous, sulcate, white ; gills broadly adnate, 

 narrow, thick, very distant, connected by veins, whitish ; 

 stem %-l in. across, very slender, equal, reddish, apex pale, 

 minutely flocculose then almost glabrous, piercing the matrix 

 obliquely and abruptly ; spores elliptical, 5 X 3 ;«,. 



Marasmius saccharinus. Fries, Epicr., p. 386 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 353; Cke., lUustr., pi. 1136c. 



On slender twigs, leaves, &o. 



Somewhat resembling M. polyadelphus but differing in not 

 being clustered, and in the per.sistently convex and papillate 

 pileus, which resembles that of a Mycena. 



Marasmius epiphyllus. Fr. 



PJleus about ^ in. across, very thin ; soon plane and at 

 length umbilicate, glabrous, wrinkled in folds, milk-white ; 

 giUs adnate, few, distant, entire, veined, white ; stem 1-2 in. 

 long, very blender, equal, rather horny, minutely velvety, 

 apex whitish, bay downwards, fistulose, piercing the matrix 

 abruptly ; spores 3 x 2 /i. 



Marasmius epiphyllus. Pries, Epicr., p. 386 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 353 ; Cke., lUustr., pi. 1137a. 



On dead fallen leaves, twigs, &c. 



Gregarious. 



Pileus 3 lines broad, plane, at length umbilicate, cream- 

 coloured, rugose. GiUs veiny, branched, adnate, broad at 

 the base ; in large specimens they are seen, when accurately 

 examined, to form a close collar round the stem, which is 

 evident even when the gills are obsolete ; margin of the 

 coUar cream-coloured. Stem 1-2 in. high, filiform, brown or 

 blackish below, paler upwards, minutely velvety. (Berk.) 



Marasmius polyadelphus. Lasch. 

 Snow-white. Pileus 1-1|- line broad, membranaceous ; 

 rather tough, hemispherical, sometimes becoming plane, 

 ooarsely striate, minutely flocculose ; gills decurrent, narrow 

 and resembling wrinkles; stem ^-f in. long, exceedingly 

 slender, base downy ; spores elliptical, 5 x 2 • 5 /t. 



