Part 23 (1/2)

_Introduced species._

=Dorotheae=, B. P. 2 cm. globose then exp. sub.u.mb. dark brown then paler, sulcate, squarroso-setulose; g. white, distant; s. 5-6 cm.

slender, minutely discoid at base, granulated like pileus and beset with white bristles.

=caldarii=, B. P. 1 cm. hemispherical, umb. brown, rugose; g. grey; s.

4-5 cm. pale grey, cartilaginous; sp. ----.

MARASMIUS, Fr.

A. COLLYBIA. _Margin of pileus incurved at first. Stem cartilaginous; mycelium floccose._

I. SCORTEI. _Stem solid, or stuffed then hollow, fibrous inside; outside villose over the cartilaginous cortex. Gills becoming free._

* _Base of stem strigosely woolly._

=urens=, Fr. P. Acrid. 4-7 cm. exp. glabrous, even, pinkish buff, pale when dry; g. free, becoming brownish, at length remote; s. 5-7 cm.

everywhere covered with white farinose down; sp. 8 4.

The acrid taste separates this sp. from _M. oreades_.

[=subannulatus=, Trog. P. plane or depr. even, yellowish; g. adnate, reddish then brownish; s. with an incomplete ring about the middle, base with white down.

=peronatus=, Fr. Acrid. P. exp. reddish brown, then tan colour, becoming lacunose, margin striate; g. adnexed, seceding, pallid then rufescent; s. 3-5 cm. villosely downy, lower portion coa.r.s.ely strigose, yellowish; sp. 10 6-7.

=porreus=, Fr. Smell of garlic. P. 2-5 cm. dingy yellowish then paler, striate, disc even, flaccid; g. distant, firm, yellow then pale; s. 2-4 cm. reddish-brown, p.u.b.escent; sp. subgl. 4.

Differs from _M. prasiosmus_ in yellowish gills and stem everywhere p.u.b.escent.

[=mulleus=, Fr. Mild. P. plane or depr. even, yellow brown then paler; g. citrin; s. bay towards fusiform rooting base, with a purplish tomentose ring.

[=Queletii=, Schulz. White. P. diaphanous, umb.; g. free, white; s.

stuffed; with grey rooting mycelium.

[=foeniculaceus=, Fr. P. tough, convex-umb. then plano-depr. pallid then white; g. broad, thick, adnex. distant, whitish; s. fibrous, glabrous, base abrupt, with rufous fibres. Used as a condiment.

** _Base of stem naked, often formed of twisted fibres._

=oreades=, Fr. P. 2-5 cm. sub.u.mb. glabrous, brownish then pale; g. free, broad, distant, pale; s. 3-6 cm. pallid, everywhere with a downy surface; sp. 8 5. Edible.

[=globularis=, Fr. P. globose campan. umb. hygrophanous, pellucidly striate; g. free, white then dingy; s. pulverulent, white.

=plancus=, Fr. P. 2-... cm. pliant, plane or depr. even, rufescent then pale; g. narrow, tinged ochraceous-brown; s. 3-5 cm. with white down, base narrowed, naked; sp. ----.

Differs from _M. oreades_ in narrower, darker coloured gills.

[=pyramidalis=, Fr. P. umb. s.h.i.+ning, dingy brown then pale; g. arcuately adnexed, white then reddish; s. narrowed upwards, flocculose, whitish, rooting.

=scorteus=, Fr. P. 1-1.5 cm. pallid, exp. obtuse, even, wrinkled; g.

broad, distant, white; s. 2-4 cm. obsoletely hollow, equal, tinged fuscous, glabrous, apex slightly mealy; sp. 8 6.