PLUTEUS CERVINUS 



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are not welded together into a firm and continuous membrane but 

 are somewhat loosely associated with one another. 



Fig. 47. — Pluteus cervinus. Fruit-bodies attached to the wood of a rotten stump 

 of Acer pseud oplatcmus. A, a young fruit-body in wliich the cystidia are 

 developing but not sterigmata. B, an older fruit-body in which the cystidia 

 are fully developed and cross the interlamellar spaces, but in which as yet 

 there are neither spores nor even sterigmata. C, a fully expanded fruit -body, 

 seated on the top of the stump, shedding spores which are represented as being 

 carried off by a slight breeze. D, a similar fruit-body growing from the side 

 of the stump. Natural size. 



Pluteus cervinus. — Pluteus cervinus is a pink-spored fungus of 

 considerable size, often found coming up upon old stumps ;ind rotting 



