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horny, very rigid, even, smooth, shining bay, pallid above (11 c.m. 
long); gills free, distant, connected by slight veins, white, then 
yellowish, growing pallid. Spores 12x6 p. 
On the ground. Tasmania. 
433. Marasmius putredinis. B. <$• C. Linn. Journ. x. Sacc. 
By 11. 2133. 
Pilens plane, thin, smooth, reddish yellow or grey (l|-2f c.m. 
diam.); stem of the same colour (18 m.m. long, 1 m.m. thick), 
solid, equal, smooth ; gills narrow, adnate, white, then turning 
yellowish. 
On Eucalyptus. Victoria. 
434. Marasmius hsematocephalus. Mont. Syll. 109. Sacc. 
Syll. 2143 —M. erythrocephalus. Mont. 
Pileus convex, plicate, membranaceous, crenate. at first cam- 
panulate, blood-red (1-2 c.m. broad) ; stem horny, hair-like, even, 
umber, fixed by a pallid dilated base ; gills attenuated, adnexed, 
few, becoming pallid. 
On dead leaves. Victoria. Queensland. 
435. Marasmius ferrugineus. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1843, p. 
630. Succ. Syll. 2144. 
Pileus membranaceous, convex, plicate, ferruginous-yellow (4-8 
m.m. diam.) ; stem slender, twisted, cinereous-brown, smooth, 
rather shining (1-2 c.m. long), fixed by an orbicular, rather pilose 
base; gills pallid, interstices veined, attenuated behind. 
On dead leaves. Victoria. 
436. Marasmius meloniformis. Berk. FI. Tasm. n., 249. 
Sacc Syll. 2147. 
Minute ; pileus hemispherical, bay-brown, umbilicate, deeply 
sulcate, mealy (1 m.m. broad) ; stem thread-like, shining (4 c.m. 
long) ; gills whitish. 
On leaves of Eucalyptus. Tasmania. 
b. Rotuljs. Stem filiform, flaccid, base inserted ; pileus soon 
becoming plane , or umbilicate ; epiphyllous. 
* Stem quite smooth, shining. 
437. Marasmius rotula. Scop. Fr. Hym. Eur. 477. 
Cooke Ulus. t. 1129a. 6acc. Syll. 2150. 
Pileus membranaceous, slightly convex, umbilicate, plicate (2-6 
m.m. broad) ; stem horny, fistulose, shining, quite smooth, blackish 
(2-3 c.m. long) ; gills few, broad, distant, attached to a free collar 
behind, pallid white ; spores 6 x 3-4 p. 
On fallen twigs, etc. Victoria. Queensland. 
438. Marasmius calobates. Kalch. Grev. iv., 71, t. 143,/. 
16. Sacc. Syll. 2187. 
Pileus membranaceous (4-8 m.m. broad), slightly umbilicate, 
plicate (when dry), ferruginous, becoming brown; stem horny. 
