298 Transactions. — Botany. 



The type specimens are destroyed by insects, hence no- 

 thing can be added to the above information. If the gills 

 are adnexed the plant cannot belong to Agaricus (the old 

 Psalliota). 



OCHEOSPOR^. 



Analysis op the Genera. 

 * Stem excentric, or absent. 



8. Crepidotus. 



** Stem central, loitliout a ring. 

 t Gills decurrent. 



9. TuBARiA. Gills triangular ; veil absent. 



10. Flammula. Gills not triangular ; veil present. 



ft Gills adnate or adnexed. 



11. Galeea. Margin of pilaus not incurved when youne. 



12. Naucoria. Margin of pileus incurved when young ; gills not 

 sinuate. 



13. Hebeloma. Margin of pileus incurved when young ; gills 

 sinuate. 



*** Stem central, loith a ring. 



14. Pholiota. 



8. Crepidotus, Fries. 



Pileus excentric, often resupinate or attached laterally ; gills 

 more or less decurrent ; stem excentric, lateral, or absent ; 

 spores rust-colour. 



Crepidotus, Fries, Syst. Myc, i., p. 272 (as a subgenus of 

 Agaricus). 



Distinguished by the resupinate and sessile or excentrically 

 stipitate pileus ; many of the species are minute. Glaudopus 

 is the analogous genus in the BliodosporcB, and Pleurotiis in 

 the LeucosporcB. Growing on dead wood. 



15. Crepidotus mollis, Schaeffer, t. 213 ; Austr. Fung., p. 58 ; 

 Sacc, Syll. v., no. 3600. 



Imbricated, horizontal ; pileus obovate orreniform, flaccid, 

 sessile, or with the posterior of the pileus narrowed into a 

 strigose stem-like base, soft and flaccid, glabrous, pale dingy 

 tan, then greyish, 3-7 cm. across ; flesh rather gelatinous, 

 soft ; gills radiating from the point of attachment of the pileus, 

 more or less decurrent, crowded, about 3 mm. broad, whitish, 

 then watery cinnamon; spores elliptical, dingy brown, 8-9 x 



6 /A. 



On rotten trunks and stumps. Dannevirke, New Zea- 

 land. Australia, Borneo, Europe, United States. 



When large the margin of the pileus is frequently more or 

 less lobed or uneven. Eemarkable for the soft consistency of 

 the entire fungus. 



