THE WHITE-SPORED AGARICS 



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Plcurotus serotinoides. Pk. 



The Yellowish Pleurotus. Edible. 



Serotinoides, like serotinus, which means late-coming; from its appearing in 

 the winter. 



The pilens is fleshy, one to three inches broad, compact, convex or nearly 

 plane, viscid when young and moist, half-kidney-shaped, roundish, solitary or 

 crowded and imbricated, variously colored, dingy-yellow, reddish-brown, greenish- 

 brown or olivaceous, the 

 margin at first involute. 



The gills are close, deter- 

 minate, whitish or yellow- 

 ish. 



The stem is very short, 

 lateral, thick, yellowish be- 

 neath, and minutely downy 

 or scaly with blackish 

 points. 



The spores are minute, 

 elliptical, .0002 inch long, 

 .0001 inch broad. 



There is probably no dif- 

 ference between this and P. 

 serotinus, the European 

 species. It is a beautiful 

 plant. The color and size 

 are quite variable. I found 

 it on Ralston's Run and in 

 Baird's woods on Frankfort 

 Pike. It is found from Sep- 

 tember to January 



FIGURE 124. Pleurotus serotinoides. One-third natural size. 



Pleurotus applicatus. Batsch. 



Little Gray Pleurotus. 



Applicatus means lying upon or close to; so named from the sessile pileus. 

 The pileus is one-third of an inch across, when young cup-shaped, dark cinerous, 

 somewhat membranaceous, quite firm, resupinate, then reflexed, somewhat striate, 

 slightly pruinose, villous at the base. 



The gills are thick, broad in proportion to the size of the cap, distant, radiat- 

 ing, gray, the margin lighter, sometimes the gills are as dark as the pileus. 



