Leucosporae 



When young and small P. ulmarius is tender and of acceptable flavor. Pieurotus 

 The stems and centers of older specimens should be cut away, and the 

 tender parts of the caps, only, used. 



P. tessula'tllS Bull. tessela, a small cube for pavement. Pileus 

 becoming pale-tawny , horizontal, compactly fleshy, convex then plane, 

 and in a form which is somewhat lateral depressed behind, irregular, 

 even, smooth, variegated with round and hexagonal paler spots. Flesh 

 thick, white. Stem short, I in. or little more long, solid, compact, 

 equal or attenuated at the base, very excentric, curved-ascending, even, 

 smooth, white. Gills sinuate behind, uncinato-adnate, thin, crowded, 

 white or becoming yellow. 



Solitary; according to some cespitose. The pileus is not cracked in 

 a tessellated manner, as one might easily imagine from the name, but 

 variegated with spots. Smaller than A. ulmarius (to which it is too 

 closely allied), but almost more compact, with a smell of new meal. 



On trunks. Stevenson. 



North Carolina, Schweinits. Edible. Curtis. Edible. Cordier. 



On specimens growing cespitose and singly, found at Haddonfield, 

 N. J. September, 1895, on trunk of apple tree, and at Eagle's Mere, 

 Pa., singly on sugar maple, August, 1898, the margin of caps were 

 beautifully marked, but not cracked. 



In quality it is better than P. ulmarius. 



P. subpalma'tus Fr. sub and palma, a palm. Pileus 3-5 in. across. 

 Flesh thick, soft, variegated; convex then more or less flattened, ir- 

 regularly circular, obtuse, wrinkled, smooth, with a gelatinous cuticle, 

 rufescent. Stem excentric or almost lateral, but the pileus is always 

 marginate behind, fibrillose, short, equal, flesh fibrous, soft. Gills ad- 

 nate, 3-4 lines broad, crowded, joined behind, dingy. Massee. 



On old trunks, squared timber, etc. 



Very remarkable for having the flesh variegated as in Fistulina he- 

 patica. Pileus, especially when young, covered with a viscid pellicle. Fr. 



Spores minutely echinulate, nearly globose, 5.6x7/u. Morgan. 



Ohio, Morgan; Wisconsin, Bundy. 



I frequently found this species in North Carolina, growing from oak 

 ties and standing oak timber. I did not notice distillation of rufescent 

 drops from the cap. The soft flesh had good flavor. The gelatinous 



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