HYMENOJIYCETES. 



52 A. MUKALis. Swartz. i — 1. i — ] . 1 line. 



Pileus reddish brown, striate, umbilicate ; stem curved ; gills 

 broad, distant, decurrent. Spores elliptic. '00033. On walls 

 amongst moss. Bold. Halsnead. Woolton. 



53 A. UMBELLIFEEUS. L. -3- 1. ^ 1. 1. 



Pileus sub-membranaceous, centre depressed, margin deflexed, 

 striate, pale yellow-brown ; gills distant, broad behind. Moist 

 heathy ground. Knowsley. Stourton. 



Sub-genus PLEUROTUS. 

 JExcentrici — -pileus entire. 



54 A. DRYiNus. Pers. 2. 3. f. 



Pileus hard, excentric, almost lateral, dirty white with brown 

 scales. A specimen was in the possession of Mr. F. P. Marrat, 

 said to be gathered by Mr. Fisher from a tree on St. James's 

 Mount, Liverpool. 



55 A. ULMAEius. Bull. 3 — 4. 4 — 0. 1. 



Pileus fleshy, dry, dirty white, flesh white ; gills broad, 

 unequal, white, yellowish when dry ; stem curved, ascending. 

 In the hollow of an ash. Croxteth. On ash, Liscard ; I. Byer- 

 ley, Esq. On ash, Runcorn. 



5(3 A. osTEEATus. Jacq. 



Pileus excentric or dimidiate, fleshy, clammy, smooth when 

 dry, deep lead colour, from three to fourteen inches in 

 breadth, margin involute when young ; gills white, forked ; 

 stem when present stout, firm, downy. Spores oblong, 

 narrow. '0004. Timber yard. Bold, Nov. 1856. Nearly 

 covering a fallen tree, Knowsley, Nov. 1857. 



57 A. sALiGNUS. Pers. 



Pileus dimidiate, four inches broad, rather thin, firm, grey or 

 pale dun, depressed and downy at the base, margin never 

 involute. Spores oblong, three times longer than broad. -0005. 

 On a willow in a garden at Poolton ; I. Byerley, Esq. 



Besupinati—pUeus restipinate, at lengtli suh-reflexed. 



58 A. APPLicATUS. Batscli. 



Pileus sub sessile, dimidiate, half-aninch broad, daik grey, 

 villous at the centre ; gills grey. On rotten wood, EustTiam. 

 Eainhill. 



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