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amongst leaves. Gregarious in woods and pastures in spv. 
Common. Often growing on fir-cones. The Nagelschwamnie 
of the Austrian markets. 
C. tenacella (tcnax, tough—from its tough substance). 
Plate X. 10. 
P. in., orbicular, slightly umbonate, glabrous; brown 
at first, then pale. F. thin, white. G. adnexed, emarginate, 
broad, rather distant, usually pure white. S. 2-4 in., very 
slender, equal, straight, glabrous, white, ending in a long 
downy, rooting base. Common in woods, especially pine, 
in spr . and aut. A tough little species, usually solitary, but 
sometimes in troops. 
C. macilenta (macies, leanness) may be at once recognised 
by the yellow colour of the entire plant. 
C. dryophila (Gr. drus , oak ; philos, loving). Plate VIII. 1. 
P. 1-3 in., convex, then plane; margin incurved at first, 
then expanded ; centre usually depressed; colour variable, 
reddish-bay to pale tan. G. almost free, but sometimes 
appearing as if adnexed, crowded, narrow; white or very 
pale flesh colour. S. 1-3 in., in. thick, yellowish or 
reddish, cartilaginous, hollow. A fragile species, common 
in spv. and aut. on the ground and on rotten stumps in 
woods. Solitary or more or less gregarious. Poisonous. 
MARASMIUS 
(Gr. maraino , to shrivel or wither—from the habit, drying 
up, not becoming putrid) 
M. peronatus ( pero, a kind of boot—the stem being more 
or less covered with strigose down). Plate VIII. 7. 
P. 1-2^ in., convex, then plane, obtuse; reddish-yellow, 
then tan-colour. F. pliant and thin. G. adnexed, then free, 
colour of the pileus ; margin yellowish. S. 2-3 in., slender, 
fibrous, whitish, densely covered, except at the apex, with 
