Massee. — On the Fungus Flora of Neio Zealand. 323 



On fallen branches ; on coniferous trees in Europe. 

 Dannevirke, New Zealand. Australia, Europe. 



Eesembling Panus styptic lis in habit, form, and size, but 

 differing in its white colour, glabrous pileus, and mild taste. 



70. Pleurotus salignus, Pers., Svn., p. 478; Austr. Fung., 

 p. 32; Sacc, Syll. v., no. 1405". 



Pileus horizontal, at length depressed and strigose behind, 

 margin entire, incurved, pale yellowish-brown or dusky, 

 5-10 cm. across ; gills horizontal, not distinctly decurrent, 

 3-6 mm. broad, distinct behind, branched midway between 

 base and front, crowded, pale, dingy, margin often broken; 

 spores dingy, elliptic-oblong, slightly curved, 8-10 x 3-5 /x.; 

 stem always very short, firm, downy or strigose. 



On rotten trunks, stumps, &c. Dannevirke, New Zealand. 

 Australia, Europe, United States. 



Not caespitose. Readily distinguished by the pileus 

 being pulvinate when young, then becoming depressed and 

 strigose, gills thinner and more crowded than usual in the 

 genus, somewhat branching, not anastomosing behind, dingy 

 smoke-colour, as are also the spores (Fries). 



tt Pileus white, dry. 



71. Pleurotus sordulentus, Berk, and Broome, Trans. Linn. 

 Soc, ser. ii., vol. ii., p. 54 (1883) ; Austr. Fung., p. 35 ; 

 Sacc, Syll. v., no. 1473. 



Pileus horizontal, sessile and attached by the edge or 

 having a short stem-like point of attachment springing from 

 the posterior of the pileus, orbicular or somewhat reniform, 

 dingy-white, at first slightly hairy or strigose, becoming 

 glabrous with age, margin incurved, sometimes lobed, 3-6 cm. 

 broad ; gills radiating from the point of attachment, rather 

 broad, thin, ventricose, whitish; spores, subglobose, minutely 

 but distinctly warted, 7-8 yu, diameter. 



On wood. New Zealand. Queensland. 



Eesembling Crepidotus mollis in habit and general appear- 

 ance, but distinguished by the persistently white gills and 

 spores. The warted spores stamp this species. 



72. Pleurotus scahrmsculus , Berk., Linn. Soc. Journ. (Bot.), 

 vol. xiii., p. 157 ; Austr. Fung., p. 35 ; Sacc, Syll. v., 

 no. 1475. 



Entirely white. Pileus thin, sessile, horizontal, fan-shaped 

 or semicircular, margin usually more or less lobed, narrowed 

 behind into a very short stem-like point of attachment which 

 is covered with spongy down, surface of pileus (more especially 

 behind) rough with scattered minutely projecting points, not 

 striate, 2-5 cm. broad and about the same long (from base to 



