Murrill: Illustrations of Fungi 



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This species occurs on twigs, bark, and wood in woods from 

 New England to South Carolina and west to the Central States. 

 The specimens figured were collected by W. A. Murrill in the 

 New York Botanical Garden. Number 8 occurred on fallen sticks 

 in deciduous woods, on July 29, 191 5, and number 11 was found 

 growing on the trunk of a living white willow, on August 9, 

 1915. 



Marasmius insititius Fries 

 Inserted Marasmius 



Plate 8. Figure 9- X i 



Pileus membranous, convex to plane or subumbilicate, 6-12 

 mm. broad ; surface not polished, pale-yellowish-brown, then 

 whitish ; margin becoming plicate-sulcate ; lamellae unequal, sim- 

 ple, broadly adnate, distant, narrow in front, pallid ; spores 

 4 X 2.5 fx (Massee) ; stipe inserted, horny, hollow, reddish-brown, 

 floccose-furfuraceous, 2-3 cm. long, 1 mm. thick. 



This species is found on dead leaves and twigs from New York 

 to North Carolina and west to Minnesota and Missouri ; also in 

 Europe. The specimens figured were collected on dead leaves in 

 hemlock woods in the New York Botanical Garden, July 27, 

 191 5, by W. A. Murrill. 



New York Botanical Garden. 



