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Type LOCALITY: Jena, Germany. 
Hasirat: On dead deciduous or coniferous wood. 
Distrisution: Eastern United States from Canada to North Carolina and Colorado; also in 
Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Boud. Ic. Myc. pl. 82; Quél. Champ. Jura Vosg. 1: pl. 14, f. 2; Batsch, Elench. 
Fung. f. 39. . 
Exsiccatt: Shear, N. Y. Fungi 108; Thiim. Myc. Univ. 405; Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 2503. 
9. Resupinatus striatulus (Pers.) Murrill. 
Agaricus striatulus Pers. Syn. Fung. 485. 1801. 
Pleurotus striatulus Gill. Champ. Fr. 336. 1876. 
Pileus membranous, very delicate, resupinate or subcupular, then reflexed, sometimes 
obconic and pendulous, sessile, scattered or gregarious, 4-8 mm. broad; surface slightly striate 
when moist, strongly striate or corrugate when dry, flaccid, glabrous, cinereous or brown: 
lamellae few, distant, whitish or cinereous: spores subglobose, 5—6 u. 
TyPB Locality: Europe. 
Hasrrat: On much decayed wood, especially of coniferous trees. 
DISTRIBUTION: New England to Alabama in the eastern United States; Blue Mountains, Ja- 
maica; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Cooke, Brit. Fungi pl. 2/2 (292) B; Gill. Champ. Fr. pl. 240 (335), f. 3. 
Exsiccatt: Rav. Fungi Car. 4: 2. 
10. Resupinatus applicatus (Batsch) S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. 
Pl. 1: 617. 1821. 
Agaricus applicatus Batsch, Elench. Fung. Contin. 1: 171. 1786. 
Pleurotus ap plicatus Gill. Champ. Fr. 335. 1876. 
Pileus firm, submembranous, cup-shaped, resupinate to refiexed, sessile, gregarious, 4-7 
mm. broad; surface dark-gray or blackish with a tinge of blue, subpruinose to subglabrous, 
villose at the base, often striatulate on the margin: lamellae broad, thick, distant, paler than ~ 
the surface of the pileus or concolorous, the edges usually paler: spores globose, smooth, hyaline, 
4-5 py. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Jena, Germany. 
Hastrat: On dead bark and wood. 
DisTRiBuTion: Cosmopolitan. . . 
ILLustRatTions: Atk. Stud. Am. Fungi f. 11/; Sow. Engl. Fungi pl. neo Cooke, Brit. Fungi pl. 
244 (291) C; Gill. Champ. Fr. pl. 240 (535), f. 1; Batsch, Elench. Fung. f. 125. 
Exsicearti: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 102; Shear, N. Y. Fungi 105; Allesch. & Schn. Fungi Bavar. 
148; Rav. Fungi Am. 409; Ellis & Ev. Fungi Columb. 1564; Roum. Fungi Gall. 2702. 
11. Resupinatus niger (Schw.) Murrill. 
Agaricus (Pleuropus) niger Schw. Schr. Nat. Ges. Leipzig 1:90. 1822. 
Agaricus (Pleurotus) niger Fries, eer Fung. 1:26. 1828. 
Pleurotus niger Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5 : 380. 1887. 
Pileus small, thin, subresupinate to cup-shaped or fan-shaped, often attached by the vertex, 
not pellucid, gregarious, not imbricate, 4-6 mm. broad; surface black, opaque, pulverulent, 
smooth, blackish-villose behind, margin plicate, concolorous: lamellae radiating from the point 
of attachment, broad, black, rather crowded, the edges at first cinereous: spores subglobose, 
smooth, hyaline, 4—5 yu. 
Type LocaLity: North Carolina. 
Hasirar: On dead bark and wood. 
DIstRiBsuTiIoNn: Throughout temperate and tropical North America, 
Exsrccatr: Rav. Fungi Car. 1: 1; Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 2008. 
12. Resupinatus subbarbatus (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill. 
Agaricus (Pleurotus) subbarbatus Berk, & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 288. 1868. 
Pleurotus subbarbatus Sacc, Syll. Fung. 5: 383. 1887. 
Pileus fan-shaped, collapsing and adhering to the matrix, 8 mm. broad; surface blackish- 
brown, slightly hispid, margin striatulate, undulate, concolorous: lamellae narrow, concolorous, 
crowded. 
Type LocaLity: Cuba. 
Hasirat: On dead fogs. 
DISTRIBUTION: Cuba, Guadeloupe, and Dominica. 
