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Marasmius torquescens, Quelet t. 23./. 3. 
Pileus membranaceous, thin, convex plane, rugose, striate, pallid ; 
disc brownish ; stem rather filiform, delicately velvety, brown, 
smooth above and whitish ; gills free, thin, ventricose, distant, 
white or becoming reddish. — B. ^ Br. Ann. Nat. Hist.., No. 1678. 
Fr. Hyni. Eur. p. 471. 
Amongst oak leaves. Glamis, 
IVlarasmius languidus. Fr. Bym Eur., p. 473. 
Inodorous, whitish, pallid ; pileus fleshy, convex, gibbous or 
umblicate, flocculose, rugose, sulcate ; stem stuffed, thickened 
above, pallid, naked, brownish below ; gills adnate, then decurrent, 
distant, narrow, connected by veins. — B. ^ Br. Ann. Fat. Hist., 
No. 1679. Ag. grossulus, Fers. M. E., t. 26,/. 6. 
On dead leaves. 
Fanus patellairis. Fr. Ep.,p.4i00. 
Resupinate, coriaceous, flattened or cup shaped, orbicular, 
externally pallid, clad with furfuraceous down ; margin involute, 
gills concurrent, dark ochraceous. — Fr. Hym. Eur., p. 490. B. ^ 
Br. Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 1680. 
On cherry. Forres, N.B. 
lYIeirulius laeticolor. B. Sf Br. 
Wholly effused, adnate, bright orange ; margin tomentose, 
white ; hymenium even, then plicate-rugose ; folds distant. — B. ^ 
Br. Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 1681. 
On sawdust and leaves. 
Polyporus leucomelas. Fr. Syst. Myc. 1, p. 346. 
Pileus and stem here and there changing to black ; flesh soft, 
marbled, pinkish when exposed to the air ; pores white, soon 
changing colour, unequal, slightly sinuated, shortly decurrent. 
Taste pleasant, slightly astringent. — B. ^ Br. Ann. Nat. Hist., 
No. 1682. 
Aviemore, N.B. 
A curious esculent species, which attains a considerable size. 
Forothelium Stevensoni. B. 8^ Br. 
Substance rather thick, gelatinous, margin somewhat tow-like ; 
warts distinct, interstices quite smooth, bearing at the apex a 
limped diaphanous yellow globule — B. ^ Br. Ann. Nat. Hist., 
No. 1683. 
On naked wood. Glamis, N.B. 
Forothelium Keithii. B. Br. 
Narrowly adnate, somewhat umber coloured ; circumference very 
thin, subgelatinous, warts short, then collapsed, gelatinous in the 
centre. — B. 4' Fr. Ann. Nat. Hist., No. 1684. 
On branches. Forres, N.B. 
Forothelium confusum. B. ^ Br. 
Narrowly adnate, pallid ; margin very thin, arachnoid ; substance 
at first floccose, pulverulent, warts small. — B. ^ Br. Ann. Nat. 
Hist., No. 1685. 
On branches. 
