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broad, ferruginous, compactly fleshy, excentric, plano-infundibuli- Pa.xillus. 

 form and sometimes wholly lateral and ascending, dry, rivuloso- 

 granular on the surface, sometimes also slightly tomentose, the 

 thin margin involute ; flesh white. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 

 1-2.5 cent. (>2-i in.) thick, solid, elastic, somewhat equal, not 

 tuberous, curved-ascending, rooting, covered over with dense, soft 

 velvety down, which is umber-blackish or inclining to violaceous. 

 Gills adnate, scarcely decurrent, branched at the base, somewhat 

 anastomosing, crowded, 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, yellowish, easily 

 separating from the sulcate hymenophore. 



Commonly solitary. Robust, firm, often very large. The pileus is variable 

 in form. The gills do not form pores like those of P. involutus. Sometimes 

 lateral, but marginate behind. 



On pine-stumps. Rare. Aug.-Nov. 



Spores somewhat clay-colour, paler than those of P. involutus. Fr. ; ellip- 

 soid-spheroid, subhyaline, 4-6 x 3-4 mk. K. Name ater, black ; tomentum, 

 down. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 119. Hym. Eur. p. 403. Berk. Out. p. 195. C. 

 Hbk. n. 548. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 512. Ag. Batsch f. 32. Paul. t. 33. /. 

 2, 3. Nees.f. 175. 



8. P. panuoides Fr. Wholly dingy yellow. Pileus about 

 4 cent. (i% in.) long, fleshy, sessile or extended behind and at the 

 first resupinate, soon conchate dimidiate and obovate, at length 

 broadly expanded undulato-lobed and often imbricated, surface 

 pubescent then becoming smooth, somewhat rivulose; flesh equal 

 but thin. Gills decurrent to the base, anastomosing behind, 

 branched, crowded, crisped, yellow. 



Very variable in size and changeable in form. 



On sawdust, &c. Uncommon. Aug.-Oct. 



Spores ellipsoid-sphaeroid, 4-6x3-4 mk. K. ; 3x4 mk. W.G.S. Name 

 Panus ; etSos, appearance. Panus-like. Fr. Monogr. \\. p. 120. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 404. Berk. Out. p. 196. /. 12. /. 6. C. Hbk. n. 549. .S. Mycol. Scot. n. 

 513. Merulius Sow. t. 403. 



9. P. fagi B. & Br. Crisped, pallid upwards, orange beneath. 

 Gills crisped, orange. 



Remarkably gregarious. Forming a wide crisped mass of great beauty, 

 very different in appearance from P. panuoides, which is confined to fir or 

 sawdust. 



On a beech-stump. Coed Coch. 

 Name -fagus, beech. B. & Br. n. 1961. 



