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as if torn from the sides. Gills pale, ochraceous, decurrent, moderately 
broad, thin, transparent when dry. 
The pileus, when dry, is transparent. The warts are very remarkable 
and quite distinct from the pileus, indicating, as it should seem, a sort 
of universal volva. 
This very fine species has quite the habit of Panus or Lentinus, but 
the brittle pileus is against its being associated with cither genus. 
There is no ring. Like the foregoing, it is a Clitocybe in its scarcely 
excentric pileus. The species of that tribe, however, are essentially 
terrestrial, and occur very rarely on wood, and then only when it is 
almost reduced to mould by rottenness. 
219. .4. (Pleurotus) anserinus, n. s. ; imbrieato-lobatus; pileo sericeo- 
virgato umbrino-gilvo, margine involuto ; stipite brevi laterali ; lamellis 
candidis angustis confertissimis. Hook. fil., No. 64, cum ie. 
Has. On dead wood. Jillapahar, 7,500 feet. June. 
Odour rather sweet, faint. Pileus forming an imbricated, lobed, 
flabelliform mass, 4 inches or more across, reddish grey, inclining to 
umber, dry, smooth, but marked with silky, virgate lines ; substance 
softish, fleshy ; margin involute. Stem short, being in fact little more 
than the attenuated point of attachment of the pileus, obtuse. Gills 
very much crowded, narrow, white, here and there tinged with red 
running down the stem, not visibly echinulate. 
Approaching nearest, perhaps, to lobed forms of 4. petaloides, but 
resembling closely no described species. In drying it assumes a brown 
tinge, and the pileus splits very much. The lobes resemble in colour 
and in appearance those of a goose’s liver, whence I have taken 
the name. 
280. 4. (Pleurotus) edus, Berk. ; imbricatus, tenerrimus, totus 
pallide rubellus ; pileo tenui glabro ; stipite obsoleto ; lamellis angustis 
decurrentibus. Hook, fil., No. 9, eum ie. 
Has. In the hottest valleys, on trunks of dead trees, in open places. 
Sikkim Himalaya. May. 
Odour faint. Imbricated, extremely beautiful and delicate, of a pale 
Aurora-red. ileus 3 inches or more across, spathulate at first, then 
flabelliform, smooth, slightly rimose, thin, but fleshy, brittle; edge 
ineurved. Stem obsolete. Gills very narrow, decurrent, extremely thin, 
crowded, reticulated at the base. 
Allied to 4. petaloides, but differing in its uniform tint, in the 
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