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MARASMIUS LONGIPES Peck 26 N. Y. Rep. 1873. 
Pileus thin, convex, glabrous, finely striate on the margin, 
tawny-red. Stipe tall, straight, equal, hollow, pruinose-tomentose, 
radicating, brown or fawn-color, white at the top. Lamellae not 
crowded, attached, white. 
Growing among fallen leaves in woods. Pileus 8-12 mm. in 
diameter, the stipe 5-12 cm. long and 1 mm. thick. The tall 
straight, slender stem is the characteristic feature of this plant. 
84. MARASMIUS HIRTIPES Clements. Survey Neb. 
IV. 1896. 
Pileus plano-convex, membranaceous, scarcely umbilicate, 
slightly radiate-sulcate, glabrous, tawny. Stipe elongated, fili¬ 
form, hollow, dark rufous, beset with white or tawny hairs. La¬ 
mellae rather numerous, adnate, linear, white or dilute yellow; 
spores ellipsoid, 7x4 mic. 
Growing on the ground. Pileus 3-7 mm. in diameter, the 
stipe 3-8 cm. long and less than 1 mm. thick. 
MARASMIUS PAPILLATUS Peck, 24 N. Y. Rep. 1871. 
Pileus submembranaceous, convex then expanded, with a 
small umbo or papilla, obscurely striate on the margin, dirty white 
or gray, sometimes with a pinkish hue. Stipe slender, firm, hol¬ 
low, concolorous, pruinose, deeply rooting. Lamellae narrow, 
close, attached white or yellowish. 
Growing on rotten, mossy logs in woods. Pileus 8-20 mm. 
in diameter, the stipe 3-5 cm. long and 1 mm. thick. 
II. SARMENTOSI. Stipes arising from an ascending or 
prostrate common stem. 
A. STIPES GLABROUS. 
86. MARASMIUS BREVIPES B. & Rav. Ann. & Mag. 
N. H. 1853. 
Pileus convex, dark blood-red, the margin even. Stipe short, 
filiform, jet-black, quite smooth, springing from creeping myce- 
lioid threads of the same nature with itself. Lamellae few, ad¬ 
nate, rufous. 
Growing on dead twigs of Oak. Pileus 2-4 mm. in diameter, 
the stipe 2-4 mm. long. 
87. MARASMIUS MULTICEPS B. & C. Fungi Cub. 132. 
Pileus pure white, hemisphaeric umbilicate, sulcate, trans¬ 
versely rugulose. Common stem creeping, proliferous, black, 
rigid, sending up the vertical stipes. Lamellae few, white, fur¬ 
nished with a collar. 
Growing on old logs in woods. Pileus 6-7 mm. in diameter, 
the stipe 12-25 mm - m length, the common stem many centimeters 
long. Nearly allied to M. polycladus Mont. 
B. STIPES PUBESCENT. 
