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STEM 3-8 cm. long, 5-7 mm. thick, eccentric, rigid-elastic, variously 

 curved, equal, fibrillose, pale yellow, stuffed then hollow, apex floc- 

 cose, even. SPORES oval to short elliptical, 6-9 x 5-6 inicr., gran- 

 ular within, smooth, white. CYSTIDIA none. 



(Dried: Bay-brown throughout.) 



Gregarious or subcaespitose. On decaying logs, hemlock or mixed 

 woods. Bay View. New Richmond. .September. Rare. 



This species is usually rather long-stemmed, but it also occurs 

 with a short, firm stem. Sometimes it is rather soft in texture but 

 in dry weather it becomes firm. It is easily distinguished by the 

 pale yellow color of the whole plant. In one collection the color 

 was more truly sulfur-yellow. When it is dried, it assumes a bay- 

 brown or dingy chestnut color. 



699. Pleurotus subpalmatus Fr. 



Epicrisis, 1836-38. 



Illustrations: Lloyd, Mycological Notes, Vol. I, Fig. 23, p. 51. 

 Cooke, 111., PI. 255. (This has not the appearance of our 

 plant.) 



PILEUS 3-5 cm. broad, fleshy, convex-plane, obtuse, the cuticle 

 gelatinous, coarsely reticulated and separable, brick-red to flesh 

 color, glabrous. FLESH rufescent, thick except at margin. GILLS 

 adnate, moderately broad, subventricose, close, thin, a few forked at 

 times or interspaces venose, becoming salmon color. STEM corica- 

 ceous-fleshy, confluent with pileus, 2-3 cm. long, 5-6 mm. thick, 

 equal, somewhat eccentric, curved, fibrillose, fibrous-stuffed, red- 

 dish within and without. SPORES globose, ccliinulate, whitish, 

 ■flesh color in mass. 



On prostrate maple trunk, cut timber, etc. Houghton, Detroit 

 I Grosse Isle). August-September. Rare. 



This rare species has been collected in this country in a small 

 number of widely separated localities. Morgan and Lloyd both re- 

 port i! from Ohio. It seems to have been collected in Kansas and 

 Minnesota. We have it from the northern and southern sections 

 of our Stale. It departs so widely from the genus Pleurotus in its 

 echinulate spores, which are flesh-colored, and the peculiar raised 

 net-work of reticulations on the upper surface of the pileus, that 

 it might be considered well marked as an independent genus. It 

 is just as properly an Entoloma as a Pleurotus; and why not a 



