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AGARICACE/E 



Trogia 



European species obtuse, crisped, not channelled as in non-European 

 species. Spores white. (Fig. 70.) 



Growing on wood, becoming dry and reviving with moisture. 

 1449. T. erispa Fr. (from the crisped gills) a b c. 



P. cup-shaped, expanded, resupinate, light-yellowish-rufescent, 

 zoned rufous; marg. whitish, sometimes almost white. St. 

 obsolete or rudimentary. G. vein-like, dichotomous, narrow, 

 white to steel-grey. 



Gregarious, imbricate. Logs, branches, twigs, beech, birch ; uncommon. 

 Jan. -Dec. Diam. \\ in. Sometimes almost wholly white. 



LVI1. SCHIZOPHYLLUM Fr. 



(From the gills, split longitudinally at the edge ; 

 Gr. sc/iiso, to split, pJudlon, a leaf.) 



Veil obsolete. Pileus thin, arid. Stem lateral or none. Gills 

 coriaceous, channelled longitudinally with edges revolute. Spores 

 white. (Fig. 71.) 



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Fig. 71. — Schizophyllum cojnnnine Fr., entire and in section. 

 Natural size, a, section across gills. X 10. 



1450. S. commune Fr. (from its being common in certain countries ; 



communis, common) a b c. 



P. arid, at first cup-like, then expanded, reniform or excentric, 



resupinate, downy, white or umber- white, commonly zoned 



greyish. St. rudimentary or none. G. splitting, the edges 



revolute, fuscous-grey to purplish, cinereous or clay-white to 



tan-salmon. 



Said to be edible. Sold in a dry state in China for soup ; 800 lbs were 

 exported from Auckland, New Zealand, to China in 1872. Dead wood, 

 rotten trunks, logs, water-butts, beer-casks, wood in greenhouses, horse- 

 chestnut, beech, alder, dry hay in silos ; rare in Britain. May-Jan. 

 Diam. 2 in. 



