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Gills white, then flesh colour, or slightly yellowish, free, ventricose. 

 Flesh white, somewhat filamentous in the stem. Spores pink, broadly 

 elliptical, 7-8 x 5-7 p.. "Cystidia obtuse, elongated, cylindric, very 

 prominent, 13-14^, broad, entire length, 75-1 15//," Lange. On poplar 

 trunks, sawdust and rotten wood. Aug. Sept. Uncommon. 



***P. glabrous. 



108. P. leoninus (Schaeff.) Fr. (= Pluteus leoninus var. coccineus 

 Massee.) Cke. Illus. no. 313, t. 421, figs. A, B. 



Leoninus, pertaining to a lion. 



P. 3-7 cm., yellow, lemon yellow, crimson orange, or vermilion, thin, 

 fragile, campanulate, then expanded, margin striate. St. 4-7 x 1 cm., 

 whitish light yellow, often vermilion at the thickened base, fragile, striate, 

 fibrillose. Gills white, then flesh colour, margin often light yellow, free. 

 Flesh white, or yellowish, reddish under the cuticle in the vermilion 

 specimens. Spores pink, elliptical, or globose, 5-7 x 5/z, multi- 

 guttulate. Cystidia "on gill surface flask-shaped to fusiform 60- 

 110 x 24-33 ju, apex rounded, untoothed, on edge of gill clavate to 

 bottle-shaped, 60-75 x 15-27//, " Rick. On old willows, and stumps. 

 Sept. Jan. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



109. P. roseo-albus Fr. Rosens, rosy; albus, white. 

 P. 7-8 cm., rosy, thin, convex, then expanded. St. 4-6 x 1 cm., 



white, pruinose, curved. Gills white, then flesh colour, free. Spores 

 pink. Poplar trunks. Sept. Rare. 



110. P. chrysophaeus (Schaeff.) Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 91. 



%/ouoro9, gold; <ai09, dusky. 



P. 2-4 cm., dark cinnamon, or pale umber, often streaked with Hack, 

 submembranaceous, convex, then expanded; margin striate. St. 

 4-6 cm. x 3-9 mm., yellow, equal, striate, fibrillose. Gills white, then 

 flesh colour, free. Flesh yellowish, deeper coloured in the stem. Spores 

 pink, subglobose, 6-7 /z, multi-guttulate. "Cystidia obtusely fusi- 

 form, subventricose, inflated" Lange. On twigs and stumps. May 

 Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



111. P. phlebophorus (Ditm.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 315, t. 422, fig. A. 



<f>\ety, a vein; <f>epa), I bear. 



P. 3-5 cm., umber, slightly fleshy, convex, then expanded, 

 wrinkled with veins. St. 3-6 cm. x 56 mm., white, shining, some- 

 what incurved; base swollen, floccose. Gills white, then flesh colour, 

 free. Flesh white, fragile. Spores pink, subglobose, 5-9 x 5-8/>t, 

 1-guttulate. Cystidia "bladder-shaped on edge of gill, 30-40 x 15- 

 18ju, " Rick. On rotten wood, dead twigs, and sawdust. June Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



