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base whitish, strigose (5-8 c.m. long, 4 m.m. thick) ; gills free, 
seceding, broad, lax, connected by veins, quite entire, whitish. 
Spores 10-11 x4-5 p.. 
Amongst leaves, near stumps. Victoria. Queensland. 
421 . Marasmius impudicus. Fr. Hym. Enr. 471. Sacc. 
Syll. v., 2057. Cooke Illus. t. 11245. 
Foetid. Pileus rather fleshy, tough, convexo-plane, depressed, 
margin at length striate (lf-2| c.m. broad), growing pale; stem 
fistulose, equal, turning purple, everywhere whitish velvety when 
dry, base naked, rooting (5 c.m. long, 2 m.m. thick) ; gills nearly 
free, ventrieose, flesh colour, then white. Spores 8 x 4-5 jx. 
About trunks. Victoria. 
422 . Marasmius lanaripes. Cke. <j* Mass. Grev. xvm., 4. 
Pileus fleshy, coriaceous, thin, convex, then flattened, smooth, 
even, lead colour, or dirty dark blue (1 in. diam.) ; stem erect, 
rigid, at length compressed, hollow (2-3 in. long, 1-2 lines thick), 
of the same colour, or tinged with olive, very densely velvety ; 
gills adnexed, distant, ventrieose, tawny ; spores elliptic, white, 
7-8 X 4 /x (whole plant turns black in drying). 
On rotten wood. Queensland. (Fig. 42). 
423 . Marasmius floriceps. B. <j- C. Cuban Fungi 127. 
Sacc. Syll. 2068 (= M. floralis, B. C.). 
Pileus conical, then plane, umbonate, sulcate, smooth, bright 
red brown (18 m.m. broad) ; stem twisted, hollow, brown down- 
wards, shining, smooth (4 c.m. long, 2 m.m. thick); gills few, 
broad, white. 
On rotten wood. Victoria. 
c. Cadopodes. Stem short, often tuberculose. 
424 . Marasmius scorodonius. Fr. Hym. Fur. 472. Sacc. 
Syll. 2070. Cooke Illus. t. il25a. 
Strong scented. Pileus somewhat fleshy, tough, even, soon 
plane, rugulose, and crispate (1-2 c.m. broad); stem fistulose, 
equal, quite smooth, shining, rufous (2-3 c.m. long, 2 m.m. thick) ; 
gills adnate, crisp, white. Spores 6x4/i. 
On dry ground. Victoria. 
425. Marasmius calopus. Pers. Syn. 373. Fries Hym. 
Fur. 472. Cooke Illus. t. 11255. Sacc. Syll. 2071. 
Inodorous. Pileus rather fleshy, tough, convexo-plane, then 
depressed, even, at length rugose ; stem fistulose, equal, smooth, 
not rooting, shining, rufous bay ; gills emarginate, adnexed, thin, 
white. Spores 7x4/i. 
On twigs, grass roots, etc. Queensland. Harkaway Range. 
426 . Marasmius stylobates. B. <)'■ C. Cuba No. 109. Sacc. 
Syll. v., 2084. 
White ; pileus thin, smooth, convex, then plane, sulcate at the 
inflexed margin (4 m.m. broad) ; stem arising from an orbicular 
