disc brown.

The gills are attached to a collar that is free around the stem, few in
number, slightly ventricose, cream-color.

The stem is short, slender, equal, smooth, shining, black, whitish
above.

The spores are globose, 3-4u.

This species is very near M. rotula but it can be easily distinguished
by the pale rufescent, distinctly sulcate pileus, and its growing on
grass. I have frequently found it on the Chillicothe high school lawn.

_Marasmius siccus. Schw._

THE BELL-SHAPED MARASMIUS.

[Illustration: Plate XVII. Figure 110.--Marasmius siccus.

Natural size. The cap ochraceous red, the disks somewhat darker, the
stems shining and blackish-brown.]

[Illustration: Figure 111.--Marasmius siccus. Natural size. Caps deeply
furrowed and pinkish.]

This is a very beautiful plant found in the woods after a rain, growing
from the leaves. They are found singly, but usually in groups.

The pileus is at first nearly conical, then campanulate, membranaceous,
dry, smooth, furrows radiating from almost the center, growing larger as
they approach the margin, ochraceous-red, the disk a little darker.

The gills are free or slightly attached, few, distant, broad, narrowed
toward the stem, whitish.

The stem is hollow, tough, smooth, shining, blackish-brown, two to three
inches long. The pileus is about a half inch broad.

The plant is quite common in our woods. I have not found it elsewhere.
The plants in the photograph represent the pink form, which is not so
common as the ochraceous-red. In the pink form the center of the cap and
the apex of the stem is a delicate pink, which gives the plant a
beautiful appearance.

Found from June to October. I have not tested it but have no doubt of
its esculent qualities.

_Marasmius fagineus. Morgan._

Fagineus means belonging to beech.

Pileus a little fleshy, convex then plane or depressed, at length
somewhat repand, rugose-striate, reddish-pallid or alutaceous.

The gills are short-adnate, somewhat crisped, close, pale reddish.

The stem is short, hollow, pubescent, thickened upward, concolorous; the
base somewhat tuberculose. _Morgan_, Myc. Flora M. V.

This plant is quite frequently found in our woods growing on the bark at
the base of living beech trees. Its habitat, its reddish or alutaceous
cap, and its paler gills will clearly identify the species.

_Marasmius peronatus. Fr._

THE MASKED MARASMIUS.

[Illustration: Figure 112.--Marasmius perona