62 AGAEICINI. 



Gregarious. Pileus 2 Hues or more broad and high, altogether stemless, cup- 

 shaped, hanging down, cinereous, very minutely strigose, especially at the 

 base; margin paler, sprinkled with a few meal-like scales. Upper stratum 

 gelatinous, cinereous, beneath which the flesh is white and very thin. Gills 

 pure white, rather distant, the alternate ones shorter, narrow, linear. — M. J.B. 



132. Agaxicus (Pleurotus) Hobsoni. Bcrli. " Hobson's Pleurotus." 



Pileus membranaceous, reniform, or dimidiate, stemless, pale- 

 grey, minutely downy ; gills rather distant, pallid. — Berk. Outl. 



On larch stumps. Sept. Apethorpe. 

 Pileus i-4 lines across ; margin involute. 



133. Agaricus (Pleurotus) applicatus. Batsch. "Little grey 



Pleurotus."' 



Dark cinereous ; pileus submembranaceous, rather firm, resu- 

 pinate, then refiexed, somewhat striate, sub-pruinose, villous at 

 the base; gills loose, paler. — Fr. Epic7\ p. 137. Batsch. f. 126. 

 Sow.t.oOl. Eng.Fl.Y.p.lo. BuU.t.b81,f.2. Pers. M.E.i.t. 

 28,/. 8. 



On dead fallen branches. Common. [S. Carolina.] 



Pileus about J in. across, when young cup-shaped, resupinate, slightly 

 carnose, striate when moist, more or less villous ; gills broad, distant, radi- 

 ating, grey, the margin whitish, stem none. — M. J. B. (fij. 37, nat. size.) 



134. Agaricus (Pleurotus) striatulus. Fr. " Striate Pleurotus." 



Pale cinereous. Pileus very delicate, striate, flaccid, smooth ; 

 gills few, distant. — Fr. Epicr.p. 137. Eng. Fl. \.p. 75. 



. On firwood, hazel twigs, &c. Scotland. [S. Carolina.] 



Scattered or gregarious, persistent. Pileus 3-4 lines broad, convex, wrin- 

 kled when dry ; gills few, unequal, distant, sometimes dirty-white, sometimes 

 the whole plant is brown. — Fries. 



135. Agaricus (Pleurotus) hypnophilus. P. " Moss Pleurotus." 



Piesupinate, flat, white ; pileus sub-reniform, nearly smooth ; 

 gills simple. — Pers. M.E. iii. t. 24:,/. 5 a. Berk. Outl. p. 139. Eng. 

 Fl.Y.p.76. 



On the larger mosses and fallen leaves. Appin. 



Exactly the habit of ^1. rariahilis, but the spores are white, and in conse- 

 quence the gills do not change colour. 



136. Agaricus (Pleurotus) chioneus. P. " Snowy Pleurotus." 



Snow-white, sub-resupinate, minute; pileus very thin, villous ; 

 gills lather broad ; stem very short, villous, at length obsolete. — 

 Pers. M.E. iii. t. 26, f. 10-11. Berk. Outl. p. 139. Eng. Fl.Y.p. 75. 



