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elsewhere reddish-brown, becoming ashy or brownish -white, 
streaked with brown fibrils and points. The pileus and gills 
are dry and somewhat coriaceous. The gills are distant, 
usually narrow and arched, and united to a disc at the apex 
of the stalk ; they are at first reddish, then creamy white, 
rather thick, with the interstices sometimes veined ; they are 
nearly all the same length. The stalk is up to 1 cm. high and 
1 mm. diameter, blackish-brown, rough with minute fascicles 
of hairs, insititious when growing on dead twigs ; internally 
it is blackish with a central white core ; it is not horny, but 
somewhat cartilaginous. The spores are white, narrow-oval, 
inequilateral, and sometimes curved at one end, 8-10 X 3-4 
The pileus is red-brown when dried. This agrees with the 
type specimen of Marasmius obscuratus B. & Br. 
Morasmins coronatus, n. sp. 
In the jungle at Hakgala one meets with another rhizo- 
morphic mycelium, which occupies the same position as that 
of M. obscuratus, i.e., it is attached to dead or living branches 
and stems, but not at a greater height than about 4 feet 
from the ground. 
This mycelium is about half a millimetre in diameter, dark 
brown, except near the growing point, where it becomes 
white, and somewhat lax. It is closely covered everywhere 
with adpressed white hairs, and in that respect resembles the 
mycelium of Marasmius sarmentosus. These hairs are simple, 
up to 0* 6 mm. long and 4-6 ^ diameter, septate, thick -walled, 
equal, with the apex rounded, or often irregularly bent at the 
upper end. The mycelium is united to dead or living stems 
by a rather large brownish cushion of hyphæ, up to 5 
millimetres in diameter, which usually envelops the rhizomorph. 
It is most frequently attached to dead twigs, either lying 
on the ground or still attached to the tree or shrub, but it will 
adhere to any living stem it happens to meet, apparently 
without penetrating into the living tissues of the tree. It 
overruns old stems which have a considerable thickness of 
bark and evidently penetrates into the latter, as the sporophore 
develops on the bark without any visible connection with the 
external rhizomorph. Occasionally it attaches itself to dead 
