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whitish above. G. adnate to a free collar, ventricose, distant,
veined, white or pale yellowish.
On grass, leaves, twigs, etc. ; uncommon. July-Feb. | X 2 j X A 'U-
1420. M. androsaeeus Fr. (derivation uncertain) abc.
P . arid, convex to expanded, subumbilicate, smooth, striate,
white pale buff or somewhat fuscous. St. fistulose, horny,
black, paler above, G. adnate, without a collar, distant,
whitish to salmon.
Woods, leaves, twigs, briar, beech, oak, acorn-cups, rushes, fern-stems, fir,
juniper, larch ; common. April-Dee, J X 2 X A « . Sometimes growing
from entangled masses of black horsehair-like mycelium. Sometimes
non-pileate stems only produced,
1421. M. splaehnoides Fr. (from the gut-like stem; Gr. splagchna,
intestines, eidos, appearance) abc .
P. convex to flat, umbilicate, smooth, striate, white; mid. pale
yellowish. St. fistulose, horny, usually red, becoming fuscous
or pale above and sienna below, or dark brown. G. subdecurrent,
crowded, anastomosing.
Odour none. Amongst pine-leaves. Oct. f X 2 X A
1422. M. Curreyi B. & Br. (after Frederick Currey) a.
P. convex to expanded or plane, sulcate, pallid rufous; mid.
fuscous or yellowish-sienna. St. black, white above. G.
attached to a free collar, few, subventricose, veined, pale
yellowish.
On grass. Aug. f X i j X A « •
1423. ffl. perforans Fr. (from the habit, the stem perforating the
leaves on which it grows) a c.
P. hemispherical to convexo-plane, not umbilicate, white or
whitish, becoming pale rufescent. St. fistulose, tough, equal,
bay-brown to black. G. adnate, subdistant, whitish.
Odour very fetid, not of garlic. Leaves, fir, larch; rare. Aug.-Oct.
f X 2j X A « •
1424. ffl. insititms Fr. (from the habit—the stem ingrafted on the
host-plant; insero, to insert) abc.
P. arid, convexo-plane, subumbilicate, plicato-sulcate, white or
purplish-salmon-whitish. St. fistulose, horny, attenuate downwards,
rufous to fuscous or sienna, paler above. G. adnate,
distant, white or pale salmon-purplish.
Gregarious. Odour none. Leaves, oak, decayed grass, etc, ; rare. Aug.-
Oct. ® X 2 X gV « •
1424a. ffl. selerotipes Bres. (from the hard sclerotium at the foot of
the stem ; pes, a foot) a.
P . membranous, convex, then plane, umbilicate, ruguloso-striate,
subflocculose; marg. reflexed, white; mid. yellow. St. filiform,
pruinose under a lens, pallid rufescent, apex whitish, base
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adnate to a rufescent yellowish sclerotium. G. distant, adnate,
white.
On the ground, swampy places. ^ X ^ X
7 in. Autumn. Sclerotium
\ in. long.
1425. ffl. Hudsonii Fr. (after William Hudson, author of “ Flora
Anglica ”) abc .
P. hemispherical, usually sulcate, pale fuscous-rufescent, rose-
purple, to white with sienna mid. beset with erect purple hairs.
St. horny, dark purple, paler above. G. adnexed, white.
Odour none. On fallen holly-leaves ; frequent. Mar.-Dec. :|x i|-X ^ ^ in .
1426. ffl. epiehloe Fr. (from its habit, growing on grasses; Gr. epi,
upon, chloe, grass) a b.
P. plano-convex, somewhat papillate, not striate, whitish or pale
brownish-yellow; mid. darker. St. striate, bay-brown. G.
adnexo-rounded, somewhat crowded, pale yellowish, faintly
brown.
Base of dead grasses, spines of Robinia. Aug.-Oct. I X X A «■
1427. ffl. aetinophorus B. & Br. (from the brownish star on the
pileus ; Gr. aktis, a ray of light, phero, to bear) abc.
P. convex, umbilicate, bay-brown or pale sienna, clouded with
an indefinite brownish star at mid. St. pallid or brown, paler
above. G. few, adnato-decurrent, white or pale yellowish.
Fallen twigs, sometimes terrestrial. Aug. J X ® X in.
1428. ffl. saeeharinus Fr. (from the pileus, as if powdered with
white sugar, saccharoii) abc .
P. campanulate to convexo-expanded, papillate, sulcate, white.
St. flocculose to smooth, reddish, pale above. G. adnate,
thick, distant, reticulato-wrinkled, whitish.
Dead twigs, leaves ; rare. Aug. f X f X A Pheus sometimes marked
as in 1427.
1429. ffl. epiphyllus Fr, (from the habit—growing on leaves; Gr.
epi, wqon, phullon, a leaf) abc .
P. convex to plane, umbilicate, plicato-rugose, white. St.
fistulose, subhorny, date-brown or sienna, white above. G.
adnate, distant, veined and branched, white.
Gregarious. Odour none. Dead leaves, especially ivy, twigs, etc., oak,
beech, poplar ; common. Sept.-Dec. f X 2® X A « • Pheus sometimes
marked as 1427, sometimes without gills, or gills replaced by wrinkles,
1430. ffl. polyadelphus Cooke (from its growing in crowded patches ;
Gr. polus, many, adelphos, a brother) a. White.
P. hemispherical, sulcate, flocculose. St. tough, floccose below.
G. subdecurrent, almost fold-like.
Densely gregarious. Dead leaves, etc. Autumn. A X 4 X g \ in.
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