56 SCHULZEBIA. PLUTEUS 



base, convex, then expanded; margin appendiculate. St. 5 x 1 cm., 

 whitish, equal, minutely fibrillose. Gills white, free, rather crowded. 

 Flesh white, brownish under the cuticle. Spores white, oval, 5 x 4ju. 

 Under cedars. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



91. S. Grangei Eyre. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. n, t. 5. 



Grange Park, Hants. 



P. 2-5-4 cm., dark green, cracking into fibrous scales on a white 

 ground, fleshy, convex, flatly umbonate. St. 5-6 cm. x 5-7 mm., 

 brownish, squamose, squamules tipped with the same colour as the p., 

 equal, base attenuated. Gills yellowish, free, broader in front, 

 minutely denticulate. Flesh white, reddish in the stem. Spores white, 

 club-shaped, 11-13 x 3-5 JJL, multi-guttulate. Caespitose. On soil 

 among beech leaves. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



S. Eyrei Massee = Glaucospora Eyrei (Massee) Rea. 



Spores pink. 

 Pluteus Fr. 



(Pluteus, a movable pent-house.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular. Stem central. Gills free from the stem, 

 rounded behind. Spores pink, rarely pale yellowish, globose, sub- 

 globose, or elliptical, wall continuous. Cystidia on edge of gills pear- 

 shaped, or inflated clavate ; on the sides of the gill fusiform, or bottle- 

 shaped, and hooked at the apex. Growing on wood, more rarely on 

 the ground. 



*Cuticle of the pileus separating into fibrils or flocci. 



92. P. cervinus (Schaeff.) Fr. Cervinus, pertaining to deer. 

 P. 4-10 cm., fuliginous, becoming paler, and broken up into fibrils, 



or squamules, and often streaked, fleshy, somewhat fragile, campanu- 

 late, then expanded, viscid. St. 7-10 cm. x 5-15 mm., white, covered 

 with black fibrils, firm, equal, often bulbous at the base. Gills white, 

 then flesh colour, free, rounded behind, crowded, ventricose, somewhat 

 crenulated. Flesh white, soft. Spores pink, elliptical, 8-10 x 4-5/u,. 

 Cystidia on gill edge pear-shaped, 25 x 22/x,, on gill surface fusiform, 

 hooked at the apex, 55-75 x 15-18/4. On fallen trunks, stumps, 

 sawdust heaps. Jan. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



var. Bullii Berk. Cke. Illus. no. 304, t. 357. 



Dr H. G. Bull of Hereford, the originator of the Woolhope Club 



fungus forays. 



P. 10-16 cm., pallid, disc darker, convex, then expanded and 

 gibbous. St. 8-16 x 2-3 cm., pale brown, darkest at the swollen base, 



