DERMINI. 



301 



gins, becoming pale when dry, fleshy-soft, obovate, sometimes re- Oepidotus. 



pand, rather plane, even, smooth ; dimidiate, laterally somewhat 



sessile, or extended behind with a 



short, stem-like, tomentoso-villoits base 



and horizontal. Gills determinate, not 



decurrent at the base, broad, crowded, 



clay-fuscous. 



Very much allied to A, mollis, but differing 

 in the more fleshy, somewhat cuneiform pile- 

 us, in the colour of all its parts being darker, 

 and especially in the broad gills. 



On old stumps, oak, &c. 

 Aug.-Oct. 



Rare. 



Name alveus, a trough. Shaped like a 



little trough. Lasch n. 582. Fr. Monogr. i. 



p. 398. Hym. Eur. p. 275. Berk. Out. p. 



163. C. Hbk. n. 352. Illust. PL 499 a. S. 

 Mycol. Scot. n. 358. 



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XXIX. Agaricus \Crepidotus) 

 inollis. One-half natural size. 



675. A. mollis Schasff. Pileus pallid then becoming hoary, at 

 length with rufous spots from the shed spores, gelatinous-fleshy ^ 

 convexo-plane, obovate or reniform, undulated and lobed when 

 larger, flaccid, even, smooth, dimidiate, somewhat sessile (but vary- 

 ing extended behind into a short, 12 mm. (}4 in.), strigose stem), 

 often imbricated ; flesh very soft, more or less thick, watery 

 whitish. Gills commonly decurrent to the base, linear, 2-4 mm. 

 (1-2 lin.) broad, crowded, whitish-grey then watery cinnamon. 



On sticks, stumps, sawdust, &c. Common. July-Nov. 



Pileus 2.5-7.5 cent. (1-3 in.) broad. Spores 9X5mk. W.G.S. Name 

 mollis, soft. Schaff. t. 213. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 399. Hym. Eur. p. 275. 

 Berk. Out. p. 164. /. 9.7. 6. C. Hbk. n. 353. Illust. PL 498. S. Mycol. 

 Scot. n. 359. Sow. t. 98. Hussey i. t. 74. Price/. 25. Brigant. t. 41. / 6-8. 

 Letell. t. 688. 



676. A. applanatus Pers. Pileus watery cinnamon when 

 moist, whitish when dry, very hygrophanous, slightly and watery 

 fleshy, soft, \s\\\. fragile, wholly plane and horizontal, extended be- 

 hind in a straight line into a very short white tomentose stem, 

 otherwise reniform or cuneiform, slightly striate at the margin 

 when moist, even when dry ; at length depressed behind, some- 

 what sessile. Gills ending determinately behind, crowded, linear, 

 thin, whitish, then watery cinnamon. 



Pileus watery but not gelatinous. Encircled at the base with the whitish 

 mycelium growing on the wood. 



On decaying wood. Penzance. 



