. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. MARASMIUS. 139 or obsoletely umbonate, unequal, with a persistent, pruinose, grey Nyctalis. pellicle; flesh dingy. Stem cent- C1"2 in«) l°ng> 3 mm- (\y2 lin.) thick, delicately fistulose, equal or slightly attenuated up- wards, straight or curved from oblique position, pubescent, white. Veil manifest, fibrillose. Gills adnate, thick, distant, with alter- nate shorter ones intermixed, becoming fuscous, at length con- torted and anastomosing. Gregarious, even casspitose. and rimose). The pileus is often irregu
. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. MARASMIUS. 139 or obsoletely umbonate, unequal, with a persistent, pruinose, grey Nyctalis. pellicle; flesh dingy. Stem cent- C1"2 in«) l°ng> 3 mm- (\y2 lin.) thick, delicately fistulose, equal or slightly attenuated up- wards, straight or curved from oblique position, pubescent, white. Veil manifest, fibrillose. Gills adnate, thick, distant, with alter- nate shorter ones intermixed, becoming fuscous, at length con- torted and anastomosing. Gregarious, even casspitose. and rimose). The pileus is often irregular'(angular, repand On dead Russules, adusta and fastens. Common. Odour like Polyporus squamosus, Name—from \\sparasitic growth. Fr. Monogr, ii. p. 214. Hym. Eur. p. 464. Berk. Oiit. p. 218. t. 19. f. 2. C. Hbk. n. 653. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 624. Ag. Bull. t. 2. Sow. t. 343- GENUS XIV.—Marasmius (napalvw, to wither or shrivel). Fr. Gen. Hymen. Epicr. p. 372. Tough, arid fungi; shrivelling (and not putrescent), reviving when wet. Hymenophore continuous with the stem, but hetero- geneous, descending into the trama; veil none with one exception. Stem cartilaginous or horny. Gills pliant, somewhat distant, edge acute and quite entire. This begins a new series of pliant and arid Agaricini. They are com- monly epiphytal. Like other plants they may be dried and preserved in herbaria. Marasmius is a very nat- ural genus, although it be principally distinguished by biological marks. Many of the species have a strong smell and peculiar taste (all the Agaricini with the smell of garlic seem to belong to this genus,, but no one of the species has the smell of new meal). Fr. Hym. 464. Marasmius is closely allied to Collybia. Their biological char- acter of shrivelling, and reviving with moisture is of the utmost importance in the determination of the true Marasmii. Fries refers (Monogr. ii. p. 215) to two species which hold a doubtful. LIII. Marasmius orea
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