Massee. — On the Fungus Flora of Neiv Zealand. 311 



paler upwards and smooth above the ring, stuffed, then 

 hollow, often incurved and ascending. 



On trunks and stumps ; rarely on the ground, and then 

 springing from buried wood. Dannevirke, New Zealand. 

 Australia, Tasmania, Europe, Siberia, United States. 



An elegant species when well grown. Known from 

 Pholiota squarrosa by the glabrous pileus. Most closely allied 

 to Pholiota marginata, under which species the differences are 

 indicated. 



47. Pholiota unicolor, Vahl, Plor. Dan., tab. 1071, fig. 1 ; 



Sacc, Syll. v., no. 3132. 



Pileus 1-2 cm. across; flesh thin; campanulate, then 

 convex, slightly umbonate, glabrous, almost even, at length 

 slightly striate at the margin, hygrophanous, bay, ochraceous 

 when dry ; gills adnate, receding, broad, almost triangular, 

 ochraceous-cinnamon ; spores 9-10 y. 6 jx; stem 2-5 cm. long, 

 about 2 mm. thick, almost glabrous and equal, coloured like 

 the pileus, stuffed, then hollow, often slightly curved at the 

 base ; ring superior, slender, entire. 



On trunks and branches. New Zealand. South Africa, 

 Europe. 



Subcsespitose ; constant in habit, form, and colour. 



Ehodospoe^. 

 Analysis of the Genera. 

 * Piletis excentric ; gills decurrent. 



15. CliAUDOPUS. 



** Pileus regular ; gills adnate or adnexed. 



16. Leptonia. 



*** Pileus regular ; gills free. 



17. Pluteus. 



15. Claudopus, W. G. Smith. 



Pileus excentric, lateral, or resupinate ; gills more or less 

 decurrent ; stem very short or absent ; spores salmon - 

 colour. 



Claudopus, W. G. Sm., Clavis Agaric, p. 17. 



The species are minute, distinguished by the excentric or 

 resupinate pileus, rudimentary or obsolete stem, and salmon- 

 coloured spores. Agreeing in structure with the simplest 

 forms of Ple7trotus, which differ in the white spores. Growing 

 on dead wood, herbaceous stems, &c. 



48. Claudovus depkiens, Batsch, Consp. Fung.,f. 122 ; Massee, 

 Fung.-Flora, ii., p. 237, figs. 1-3, p. 236 ; Sacc, Syll. v., 

 no. 3041. Agaricus dejyhiens, Batsch, loc. cit. 

 Pileus almost membranaceous, watery, fragile, more or less 



