CLASSIFICATION OF AGARK 



12. Schizophyllum commune I 

 Syst. Myc, 1821. 



[llustrations : Cooke, ill.. PL mm B. 



(iillci. Champignons de France, No. 641. 



Atkinson, Blushr b, Pig. L30, p. L36, L900. 



Hard, Mushrooms, Fig. L87, p. 233, L908. 



PILEUS 1-3 cm. broad, thin, tough, pliant, sessile by tin- Bar- 

 rowed base, from which ii extends in ;i fan-shaped manner, often 

 suborbicular ami lobed on the incurved margin, tinged with brown- 

 ish-gray when moist, whitish when dry, very hairy or tomenti 

 reviving. GILLS radiating from the poinl of attachment of the 

 pilens, leathery-tough, splil on edge, while or gray, Bometimes with 

 other lims. tomentose, on the inner side of the split. SPORES 

 minute, cylindrical, '■'> \ x L-1.5 micr. 



Scattered or gregarious <>u dead branches or trunks of frondi 

 trees, ('specially of hickory; also on carpinus, walnut, elm, maple, 

 sycamore, locust, apple ami probably others. Throughout tin- 

 state. Very common. 



This is a pretty fungus when growing in Luxuriance and can Dot 

 l»e easily mistaken for anything else. Some species of Pleurotus 

 have a similar habit, but are different in texture ami especially in 

 the structure of the gills. 



Panus Fr. 



(From the Latin, partus, a tumor, fries says the name w&8 used 

 by Pliny lor a tree-inhabiting fungus.) 



White-spored. Fleshy leathery, reviving, tough, persistenl ; the 

 texture fibrous, radiating into the hymenium. stem eccentric, lat- 

 eral or lacking, confluent with the pileus. <iill> at length cori 

 ous. nil/, entire. 



Not putrescent, but arid and tougb as in the genera Lentinus, 

 Marasniius. etc. They approach Pleurotus and some species have 

 been described under th.it genus. They are wood-inhabitii 

 P. yfi/iticus has i>oist,)ittus properties, the others are harmlef 



The PILEUS is eccentric, lateral or al firsl resupinate; no i 

 the hist section has been distinguished in the Btate. Tin i 

 forms often have very irregular and .tow. id and depressed ; 

 which are somewhat thick. Their Burface is usually Btrigose, vill 



