The specimens in Figure 105 were found at Ashville, Ohio.
Marasmius cohærens. (Fr.) Bres.
The Stemmed-Massed Marasmius. Edible.
Figure 106.—Marasmius cohærens. Two-thirds natural size, showing how the stems are massed together.
Cohærens means holding together, referring to the stems being massed together.
The pileus is fleshy, thin, convex, campanulate, then expanded, sometimes slightly umbonate, in old specimens the margin upturned or wavy, velvety, reddish tan-color, darker in the center, indistinctly striate.
The gills are rather crowded, narrow, adnate, sometimes becoming free from the stem, connected by slight veins, pale cinnamon-color, becoming somewhat darker with age, the variation of color due to the number of cystidia scattered over the surface of the gills and on their edge. Spores, oval, white, small, 6×3µ.
The stem is hollow, long, rigid, even, smooth, shining, reddish-brown, growing paler or whitish toward the cap, a number of the stems growing together at the base with a whitish myceloid tomentum present.