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Growing on old wood and fallen leaves of Oak. Pileus 2 
cm. in diameter, the stipe 5 cm. long and 1-2 mm. thick. The 
“globose” spores are negligible. 
10. MARASMIUS PERONATUS Fries. PIym. Eur., 
Agaricus peronatus Bolton Fung. 1788. 
Taste acrid. Pileus convex or nearly plane, fleshy-mem¬ 
branaceous, reddish-pallescent; rugulose. Stipe fibrous stuffed, 
subtomentose, downward yellow-strigose. Lamellae rather broad, 
rufescent or pallid, seceding-free; spores elliptic ovoid, hyaline, 
10 x 6-7 mic. 
Growing among old leaves in woods. Pileus 2-4 cm. in diam¬ 
eter, the stipe 5-7 cm. long, 3-4 mm thick. The dense yellow 
strigae at the base of the stipe appear to constitute the distinguish¬ 
ing character. 
11. MARASMIUS SULPHUREUS Johnson, Bull. 
Minn. Acad. 1878. 
Pileus red-brown, expanded, the margin wrinkled, the umbo 
darker colored. Stipe sulphur-colored, tomentose, equal, fistul¬ 
ous, incurved, bulbous at the base. Lamellae numerous, entire 
dimidiate, adnate, subdecurrent, venose-connected, pale orange. 
12. MARASMIUS LANATUS, Agaricus lanatus Schu¬ 
macher, En. Plant. 1803. 
Pileus fleshy-membranaceous, subhemisphaeric, bay, the mar¬ 
gin brownish. Stipe rather short, subclavate, dilute umber, fleshy 
fibrous, whitish-woolly at the base. Lamellae rather broad, 
behind subrotundate, to the apex of the stipe dilated-adnate, 
umber-brown, the margin paler. 
Growing among the fallen leaves in Beech woods. Pileus 
4-5 cm. in diameter, the stipe 5-6 cm. long and nearly 4 mm. thick. 
13. MARASMIUS FAGINEUS Morgan, Myc. Flora 
M. V. 
Pileus a little fleshy, convex then plane or depressed, at length 
somewhat repand, rugose-striate. Stipe short, hollow, pubescent, 
thickened upward, the base somewhat tuberculose. Lamellae 
short-adnate, somewhat crisped, close, pale reddish. 
Growing over the bark at the base of living beech trees. 
Pileus 2-4 cm. in diameter, the stipe 1-3 cm. long. Pileus reddish- 
pallid or alutaceous, the stipe concolorous, the lamellae rather 
paler. 
14. MARASMIUS BIFORMIS Peck, N. Y. Rep. 1902. 
Pileus thin submembranaceous, campanulate or nearly plane, 
generally umbilicate, glabrous, bay-red or pale brown, rugosely 
striate. Stipe slender, stuffed or hollow, clothed with a dense 
