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base, white or whitish: spores oblong, smooth, white or lilac-tinted, 8-12 3-4 u: stipe, when 
present, usually very short, firm, eccentric or lateral, more or less strigose-hairy at the base. 
Type Locanity: Austria. 
Hasitat: Decaying stumps and trunks of deciduous trees. 
DisTRIBUTION: Throughout temperate North America; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Boudier, Ic. Myc. 1: pl. 79; Gill. Champ. Fr. i. 246 (541); Jacq. Fl. Austr. 2: 
pl. 104; Sow. Engl. Fungi ol. 241. 
Exsiccati: Rav. Fungi Car. 2: 3. 
4, Crepidopus cornucopiae (Paulet) Murrill. 
Dendrosarcus cornucopice Paulet, Traité Champ. 2: 119. 1793 (description) and pl. 28. 1812? 
(latin name). 
Agaricus cornucopioides Pers. Myc. Eur. 3: 37. 1828. 
bake (Pleurotus) sapidus Schulzer; in Kalchbr. Ic. Hymen. Hung. 1873. Not A. sapidus Pers. 
Pleurotus cornucopiae Quél. Ench. Fung. 148. 1886. 
Pleurotus similis Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 53: 841. 1900. 
Pileus eccentric or lateral, rarely sessile, irregular, convex or depressed on the disk, gen- 
erally cespitose, 5-12 cm. broad; surface glabrous, varying from white to yellowish or brownish: 
context white, edible, the taste agreeable, slightly farinaceous; lamellae rather broad, stb- 
distant, decurrent, usually anastomosing at the base, whitish: spores oblong, smooth, white, 
becoming pale-lilac, about 8.5~11 X 4-5 uw: stipe white or whitish, firm, entirely glabrous or 
slightly tomentose at the base, solid, straight or curved, 2.5~5 cm. long, 6-16 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: France. 
Hansitat: Dead deciduous wood of various kinds. 
DISTRIBUTION: Canada to Alabama and west to the Rocky Mountains; also in Europe. 
ILLusTRaATIONS: Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 48: pl. 26, f. 5-9 (as P. osiveatus), pl. 27; Boudier, 
Ic. Myc. 1: pl. 77; Bres. Fungi Trid. pl. 115; Cooke, Brit. Fungi. pl. 1155; Gill. Champ. Fr. pl. 544; 
Hard, Mushrooms f. 123; Paulet, Traité Champ. pl. 28; Richon & Roze, Atl. Champ. pl. 48, f. 6-9. 
EXSICCATI: Shear, N.Y. Fungi 10. 
5. Crepidopus hemiphlebius (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill. 
Agaricus (Pleurotus) hemiphlebius Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 288, 1868. 
Pleurotus hemiphlebius Sacc. Syll. Fung. 5: 369. 1887. 
Pileus thin, flabelli orm, 4 cm. broad; surface -very glabrous, reddish when dry: lamellae 
very distant, thin, acute, interveined: stipe lateral, very short, cylindric, pruinose. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Cuba. 
Hasirat: On dead wood. 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
6. Crepidopus Eugeniae (Earle) Murrill. 
Geopetalum Eugeniae Earle, Inf. An. Estag. Centr. Agron. Cuba 1: 234. 1906. 
Pileus thin, expanded, suborbicular or broadly reniform, solitary or cespitose, 2-4 cm. 
broad; surface white, often brownish at the base, dry, fibrillose, margin glabrate, not striate: 
lamellae discrete, decurrent, subdistant, narrow but subventricose, white: spores ellipsoid, 
curved, 5 X 3 u: stipe lateral or nearly so, cylindric, densely fibrillose, whitish, solid, 4-8 mm. 
long, 2 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba. 
Hasirat: On dead trunks and roots of Eugenia Jambos. 
DISTRtBuTION: Known only from the type locality. 
ILLustraTIon: Inf. An. Estag. Centr. Agron. Cuba 1: pl. 32, f. 3. 
7. Crepidopus caveatus (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill. 
Agaricus (Pleurotus) caveatus Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 287. 1868. 
Pleurotus caveatus Saac. Syli. Fung. 5: 353. 1887. 
Pileus depressed to infundibuliform, subcircular, usually cespitose, 5 cm. broad; surface 
white, becoming yellowish on drying, margin slightly striate, at times lobed: lamellae decurrent, 
white or whitish, narrow, crowded: stipe eccentric, glabrous, solid, dilated above, whitish- 
mycelioid at the base, 4-5 cm. long, 3-5 mm. thick. . 
TYPE LocALIty: Cuba, . 
Hasrrat: On rotten logs and dead standing trunks. 
DisTRiBuTION: Cuba and Jamaica; also in Guiana. 
