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This species was first discovered iu a conservatory at Higligate, on old 

 tree-fern stems, originally from New Zealand. It has since been found by 

 Mr. W. G. S.nith, and is therefore included here as having equal claim with 

 Bome other species to find a place in the British Flora. 



Sub-Gen. 22. Crepidotus. Fr. S. M. i. p. 272, in part. 



Spores dark, or yellowisli brown ; veil none ; pileus excentric, 

 dimidiate, or resupinate ; flesh soft ; stem lateral, or wanting ; 

 when present, confluent with and homogeneous with the hymeno- 

 phore. 



Hab. Most of the species grow on wood, a few on moss. — 



(P/./F,/.22.) 



The species are very irregular and variable. They mostly appear late in 

 the aiitumn, and none are known to be edible. The piab-?pored species, in- 

 cluded by Fries in this sub-genus, are removed to Smith's new sub-genus 

 Claudojjus. 



Sect. 1. Eudermini. 



352. Agaricuj (Crepidotus) alveolus. Lasch. *' Oclirey 



Crepidotus." 



Pileus fleshy, soft, lateral, oboyate, then repand, opaque, con- 

 tracted, and tomentose-viilous behind ; gills determinate, crowded, 

 broad, clay-brown. — Fr. Epicr. p. 210. Pers. M.E. t. 24:, f. 3. Ann. 

 N.H. no. 685. 



On old stumps. Aug. Sept. Xorthamptonshire. ^ 



Closely allied to A . mollis, but not at all gelatinous. Spores "OOOS in. long. 

 Pileus 2 in. and more broad, ochraceous brown, then olive at the margin, 

 when dry becoming paler. 



353. Agazicus (Crepidotus) mollis. Schceff. "Soft 



Crepidotus." 



Pileus between subgelatinous and fleshy, flaccid, even, smooth, 

 becoming pale; stem obsolete; gills crowded, linear, from whitish 

 to watery cinnamon. — Fr. Epicr. p. 210. Schceff. t. 213. Sow. t. 

 98. Batsch.f. 38. Berk. Outl. t. 9,/. 6. Huss. i. t. 74. Eng. Fl. 

 Y.p. 102. Letell. t. 688. Price, f. 25. BerJc. exs. no. 18. 



On old stumps. July — Oct. Common. [United *>tates.] 



Solitary or imbric ;ted. Pileus 1-2 in. broad, at first horizontal, sub- 

 gelatinous, the base tomentose, or substrigose, margin transparent, minutely 

 tomentose, then ascending, subfulvous, pallid when dry, margin waved, some- 

 times minutely squamulose, often stained with the elliptic ferruginous spores. 

 Gills rounded behind, watery-umber, at fii'st saturated with moisture, then 

 dry and crisp. — M.J.B. Spores dark umber, 'OOOSo X '00022 in. 



(PL IV., fig. 22.) 



