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Growing among fallen leaves in woods. Pileus about 
4 mm. in diameter, the stipe 2-3 cm. long. 
B. STIPE VELVETY OR P RUIN ATE. 
146. MARASMIUS CLAVAEFORMIS Berkeley, LeTs 
Cat. 1849. 
Pileus convex, tough, white. Stipe slender, tapering down¬ 
ward and attached by a minute bulb, brown below, and clothed 
with a depressed velvety pubescence, thickened above and white 
sprinkled with furfuraceous particles. Lamellae distant, broad 
in front, behind long decurrent, whitish inclining to flesh-color. 
Growing on dead sticks. Pileus 4 mm. in diameter, the stipe 
2.5 cm. long. 
147. MARASMIUS DECURRENS Peck, 24 N. Y. Rep. 
1871. Marasmius resinosus Saccardo. Sylloge V. 
Pileus thin, convex, minutely tomentose, grayish or tawny. 
Stipe slender, firm, equal, gray, minutely tomentose. Lamellae 
arcuate-decurrent, subdistant, narrow, tapering toward each end, 
whitish with discolored edge, interspaces rugose-reticulated. 
Growing on the ground in a shaded ravine. Pileus 8-12 mm. 
in diameter, the stipe 3-5 cm. long and 1 mm. thick. 
148. MARASMIUS ACULEATUS Patonillard, Bull. 
Soc. Myc. 1900. 
Pileus convexo-campanulate, thin, coriaceous, semipellucid, 
densely orchaceous-tomentose; the hairs straight, convergent- 
fasciculate, thus forming stellate warts. Stipe slender, tapering 
upward, clothed with a short, velvety, ochraceous tomentum. 
Lamellae few, distant, broadly adnate, subdecurrent. 
Growing on the ground; Guadaloup. Pileus 2 cm. in diam¬ 
eter, the stipe 2 cm. long. The pileus bristles with warts like 
those of a Lycoperdon. 
§ 4. PLEUROTUS. PILEUS MORE OR LESS IR¬ 
REGULAR; THE STIPE EX CENTRIC, LATERAL OR 
WANTING. COMMONLY GROWING ON WOOD. 
A. STIPE EXCENTRIC. 
a. Lamellae colored. 
149. MARASMIUS PURPUREUS B. & C. Fungi Cub. 
No. 135. 1867. 
Pileus convex then plane, thin, sulcate, tomentose, purple. 
Stipe excentric, very short, solid, thickened upward, whitish. La¬ 
mellae broad, distant, purple, adnexed, the interstices even. 
Growing on stumps in woods. Pileus 2 cm. in diameter, the 
stipe 2-4 mm. long. 
