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5./ 12. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 213. Monogr. \. p. 401. Berk. Out. p. 164./. 10. Claudopus, 

 /.I. C. Hbk. n. 272. Illust. PL 344. a. S. My col. Scot. 71. 267. Hussey 

 i, t. 50. Hoffm. Anal. t. 22./ 3. A. sessilis Bull. t. 152. Fl. Dan. t. 1556. 

 A, niveus Sow. t. 97. 



488. A. depluens Batsch. — Pileus as much as 2.5 cent, (i in.) 

 broad, riifescent - hoary, somewhat membranaceous, resupinate 

 then reflexed, changeable in form, soineivhat silky j at first with a 

 villous stem then stemless. Gills scarcely decurrent, diverging, 

 broad, ventricose, somewhat crowded, grey then rufescent. 



Spores almost rose-colour. After the type of A. variabilis it is resupinate 

 then reflexed, with a stem, which is manifest and villous in younger specimens, 

 and then vanishing, but much more changeable in form, sometimes entire 

 with a central and vertical stem, so that scarcely any form is constant. It is 

 easily distinguished, however, by its thin, watery, fragile substance, by the 

 rufescent-hoary colour (very hygrophanous), and by the pileus being so deli- 

 cately silky that it appears rather smooth, most manifestly white-villous at the 

 base however, with the margin slightly striate in moist specimens. 



On the ground among moss, in hothouses, &c. Rare. Oct. 



Name — depluo, to rain. From its watery substance. Batsch f. 122, Fr. 

 Monogr. i. p. 401. Hym. Eur. p. 214. Berk. Out. p. 165. C. Hbk. n. 273. 

 Hlust. PI. 344. b. Hoffm. Anal. t. 15./. 2. A. epigaeus Pers. perhaps dis- 

 tinct and a species of Crepidotus. B. 6^ Br. n. 1849. 



489. A. byssisedus Pers. — Pileus 1-2.5 cent, (^-i in.) broad, 

 grey., becomi7tg pale luhen dry, slightly fleshy, at length horizontal, 

 rejii/orm, plane, even, villous ; flesh, which is of the same colour, 

 thin. Stem incurved., vilioics, attenuated upwards, 12 mm. (^ in.) 

 long, zoned at the base with white cottony fibrils. Gills adnato- 

 decurrent, ventricose, rather broad, whitish-cinereous, then rubigi- 

 710US with the spores. 



When young resupinate. The stem is more distinct and persistent than in 

 A. dcpluens, &:c. 



On bare soil. Rare. Sept. 



Fries found it on rotten beech wood. Spores irregular, angulato-stellate, 7 

 mk. B. &= Br.; 11x7 mk. W.G.S. ; irregular, 6-angled, 8-10x5-6 mk. B. 

 Name — byssus, fine linen thread ; sedeo, to sit. From the cottony fibrils at the 

 base of the stem. Pers. Ic. descr. t. 14. _/^ 4. Fr. Mofiogr. \. p. 402. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 214. B. 5r" Br. n. 686. Berk. Out. p. 165. C. Hbk. n. 274. Illust. 

 PI. 344. c, A. striatulus griseus Pers. Obs. 2. /. 5. f. 8, 9. 



