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c. Resnpinatic. Pilcus at length reflexed, sessile. Gills starting 



from an excentric point. 



Pilcus fleshy, uniform. 436, 437 



Pilcus fleshy, striate, with an upper gelatinous stratum or 



viscid pellicle. 438 444 



Pileus membranous, not viscid. 445 448 



a. Excentricce. 



407. P. corticatus Quel. (from the thick covering of the pileus and 



stem ; cortex, bark) a b. 

 P. fleshy, floccose, pale buff and grey. St. squamuloso-fibrillose 



white to pale buff. A. silky-floccose. G. decurrent, anasto 



mosing near St., yellowish when old. Flesh white or faintly 



yellowish. 

 Solitary or cnsspitose. Tasteless ; odour pleasant, rather strong. Trunks, 



elm, ash, apple, etc. Sept. -Oct. 9 X 3! X i in. 



408. P. dryinus Quel. (from its frequent habitat ; Gr. drus, oak) a b c. 

 P. fleshy, plane, whitish with fuscous sc. ; mid. darker. St. 



white or yellowish-white, fuscous at base. A. floccose. G. 

 decurrent, white, yellowish when old. 



Taste pleasant, mushroom-like. Trunks, oak, elm, apple, willow, walnut, 

 ash, poplar. Sept.-Feb. 6 x 4 X ij in. 



409. P. spongiosus Sacc. (from its spongy substance) a b c. 



P. pulvinate, subumbonate, downy, white, tan or ashy. Sf. white- 

 tomentose, sometimes almost obsolete. A. evanescent. G. 

 decurrent, anastomosing on stem, whitish. 



Stumps, beech, apple, poplar, hornbeam ; rare. Oct. -Nov. 3i X ij X f in. 

 Soft and spongy, shrinking to almost half its original size in drying. 



410. P. ulmarius Quel. (from its usual habitat ; nlmus, elm) a b c. 



Whitish. 



P. pulvinate, broadly umbonate, smooth. St. villous at base, 

 rarely central. G. adnate. 



Solitary or coespitose. Said to be edible. Odour mealy or slightly acid. 

 Trunks, elm, wych elm, beech, oak, poplar, willow, sometimes parasitic 

 on 1587. Sept. -Dec. 6 X 4 X if in. Sometimes proliferous, with 

 many small growths at base of stem. 



411. P. tessulatus Gill, (from the tesselated markings of the pileus) a. 

 P. convex, subumbonate, pale tawny, brown-tesselated. St. 



smooth, white. G. sinuate, white or faintly brownish. 

 Solitary or crespitose. Odour of new meal. Trunks. 4^ X 2 x f in. 



412. P. subpalmatus Gill, (from a fancied resemblance to the shape 



of the hand) a b c. 



P. convex, with a thick, gelatinous, reticulato-corrugate pellicle, 

 rufescent-salmon. St. whitish above, salmon below. G. 

 sinuate with a decurrent tooth or adnato-rounded, sometimes 

 adnate with a collar, paler than P. Flesh salmon-streaky. 



Taste bitter-aromatic. Squared timber, trunks, etc., willow, elm, oak; 

 rare. Sept. -Nov. 4^ x 2\ x \ in. 



