It is a very common plant, and it will pay any one to know it, as we cannot find anything in the markets that will equal it as a table delicacy.
Found in pastures and lawns during rainy weather from May till frost.
Figure 102.—Marasmius oreades. Showing a fairy ring.
Marasmius urens. Fr.
The Stinging Marasmius.
Urens means burning; so called from its acrid taste.
The pileus is pale-buff, tough, fleshy, convex or flat, becoming depressed and finally wrinkled, smooth, even, one to two inches broad.
The gills are unequal, cream-colored, becoming brownish, much closer than in the Fairy Ring, hardly reaching the stem proper, joined behind.