WHITE-SPORED AGARICS. 



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jirovvint: from a hollnw in an ash, anJ Stf\enson (p. \()j) imports the 

 samt- conditinn. 



Pleurotiis sulpluiroides Pk. — Tliis rare species, tirst collectcJ in the 

 Catskill Mountains 1869, and described by Peck in the 26th Report, 

 N. Y. State Mas., p. 86, 1870, was found by me on two different 

 occasions at Ithaca, M. V.. durin<i the autumn of 1898, on rottinji 

 loys, Ithaca Fiats, and a^ain in Entleld Gorge, six miles from Ithaca. 

 The plants are from 5-8 cm. high, the cap 3-5 cm. broad, and the 

 stem 5-7 mm. in thickness, and the entire plant is of a dull, or pale, 

 yellow. 



The pileus is nearly regular, tlesh)-, thin toward the margin, con- 

 vex, umbonate, smooth or with a few small scales. The gills are 



Figure 108. — Pleurotus sulphuroides. Entire plant dull nr pale yellow (natural 



size). Copyright igoo. 



rather crowded, broad, rounded or notched at the stem, pale yellow. 

 The spores are elliptical, 7-9 x 5-6 //. The stem is ascending and 

 curved, nearly or quite central in some specimens in its attachment 

 to the pileus, whitish or \'eIIowish, mealy or slightly tomentose at 

 the apex. 



Figure 108 is from plants (No. 2953, C. U. herbarium) on rot- 

 ting log, Ithaca Flats, October, 1898. 



Pleurotus petaloides Bull. Edible. — The petal-like agaric is so called 

 from the tancied resemblance of the plant to the petal of a flower. 

 The plant usually grows in a nearly upright or more or less ascend- 

 ing position, or when it grows from the side of a trunk it is somewhat 

 shelving. It is somewhat spathulate in form, i. e., broad at the free 



