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b. Plant orange or red. 
3d. C. auRANTIACUS, Wulf.—Nearly orange color. Pileus fleshy, soft, 
depressed, somewhat tomentose. Stipe stuffed, unequal. Lamelle 
close, straight, dichotomous, of a rather deeper color. Spores white. 
In woods. Pileus 2-3 in. broad, stipe 2 in. long. This species is 
distinguished by its straight and crowded dark orange lamelle. 
4, C. CINNABARINUS, Schw.—Cinnabar-red. Pileus plane, then de- 
pressed or somewhat infundibuliform, glabrous, the margin inflexed 
and more or less irregular. Stipe solid, curved or crooked, unequal, 
glabrous. Lamelle rather thick, distant, decurrent. Spores cinnabar- 
red, oblique, .0083 <.0056 mm. 
Very abundant in summer. Growing on hillsides in woods. Pileus 
4-14 in. in diameter, stipe1-2in. long. ‘The whole plant together with 
its spores is a bright cinnabar color. Inside the flesh is white. This 
beautiful plant was first found in Carolina, by the celebrated De 
Schweinitz; he says it is common also in Pennsylvania. I am in- 
debted for a copy of the description to Mr. W. C. Stevenson, of the 
Academy of Sciences, Philadelphia. 
Genus X.—Marasmtius, Fr. 
Fungi tough, dry, marcescent, reviving when wet. Lamelle tough, 
the edge acute and entire. 
1. Cottys1a.—Pileus fleshy-tough, at length coriaceous; the margin 
at first involute. Stipe somewhat cartilaginous; the mycelium floccose. 
A. Stipe solid or stuffed, villous. 
a. Stipe strigose at the base, 1, 2. 
b. Stipe naked at the base, 3, 4. 
B. Stipe hollow, rooting. 
c. Stipe woolly below, glabrous above, 5, 6. 
d. Stipe velvety or pruinose, 7, 8. 
C. Stipe short, insititious. 
é. Stipe glabrous, shining, 9, 10. 
J. Stipe velvety or pruinose, 11, 12. 
A. Stipe solid or stuffed, fibrous within, the external 
cartilaginous cuticle villous. 
a, Stipe woolly or strigose at the base. 
1. M. urens, Bull.—Acrid. Pileus fleshy then coriaceous, convexo- 
explanate, glabrous, even, at length wrinkled or rivulose. Stipe 
