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B. Gills adnate or adnexed, 



Leptonia. — Gills adnexed, soon separating from tlie stem ; 

 margin of pileus incurved when young. 



Nolanea. — Gills adnexed, soon separating from the stem ; 

 margin of pileus straight when young. 



Entoloma. — Gills sinuate, adnexed ; margin of pileus 

 incurved when young ; stem fibrous. 



C. Gills free from the stem. 



Pluteus. — Volva and ring both absent. 



(Annularia. — Stem without a volva, but furnished with 

 a ring.) 



Volvaria. — Stem with a distinct free volva at the base, 

 ring absent. 



CLAUDOPUS. W. G. Sm. (figs. 1-3, p. 236.) 



Pileus excentric, lateral, or resupinate; stem very short 

 entirely absent; gills pink, sinuate or decurrent; spores 

 smooth or warted. 



Claudopus, Wovihington. G. Smith, Clavis Agaricin., p. 17; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 138. 



The species are minute, and distinguished by the 

 excentric or. resuj)inate pileus, and rudimentary or obsolete 

 stem. Agreeing in structure with the degraded forms of 

 Pleurotus, but distinguished by the pink spores. 



Claudopus variabilis. Pers. 



Pileus |-|- in. across, at first resupinate and fixed by the 

 pileus, then more or less reflexed and often with a very short 

 stem-like base, silky with white doAvn, margin incurved,, 

 very thin, often Avavy; gills narrow, radiating from the 

 point of attachment, rather distant, white then jpale salmon- 

 colour ; spores elliptical, smooth, 3 x 2 /x. 



Agaricus variabilis, Persoon, Obs., 2, t. v. f. 12 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 138; Cke., Illustr., pi. 3-14A. 



