62 PLUTEUS. GLAUCOSPORA 



var. albo-farinosus Rea. Albus, white ; farinosus, mealy. 



Differs from the type in the white mealy apex of the stem. On 

 rotten wood in woods. Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



var. reticulatus Cke. = Pleurotus palmatus (Bull.) Quel. 



var. marginatus Quel. Quel. As. Fr. (1884), t. 8, fig. 4. 



Marginatus, bordered. 



Differs from the type in the chestnut brown peridium, and the bistre 

 black, crenidate edge of the gills. 



112. P. umbrinellus (Sommerf.) Fr. Umbrinellus, brownish. 

 P. 15 mm., bistre, convex, tough; margin paler, fimbriate. St. 



5-7 cm. x 3-4 mm., white, shining, tough, rooting. Gills white, then 

 flesh colour, free. Spores "subglobose or elliptical 8-9 x 6-7 /u, or 

 7-8 x 6/x; cystidia 60-90 x 18-30/z, " Sacc. In coppices, and gardens. 

 June Oct. Uncommon. 



Spores green. 



Glaucospora Rea 1 . 



(y\av/c6<;, green; cnropd, seed.) 



Pileus fleshy, regular; margin at first incurved. Gills free from the 

 stem. Spores bluish green, elliptical, wall continuous. Growing on 

 the ground. 



113. G. Eyrei (Massee) Rea. (= Schulzeria Eyrei Massee.) Grevillea, 

 xxn (1894), t. 185, fig. 1, as Schulzeria Eyrei Massee. 



Rev. W. L. W. Eyre, the ardent mycologist of Swarraton. 

 P. 2-4 cm., pallid, disc ochraceous, minutely granular, campanu- 

 late, then expanded and plane, broadly umbonate; margin incurved, 

 and appendiculate with the membranaceous veil when young, often 

 split, and revolute when old. St. 5 cm. x 2-3 mm., pallid, becoming 

 ochraceous, flexuose, subequal, apex minutely mealy. Gills pale green, 

 then deep bluish green, free, narrowed, thin. Flesh white, yellowish in 

 the stem. Spores bluish green, elliptical, 4-5 x 2-5-3ju,. Under spruce 

 firs, and in pastures. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



Spores ochraceous. 

 Pluteolus Fr. 



(Pluteolus, a little pent-house.) 



Pileus fleshy, very thin, viscid ; margin at first straight, adpressed 

 to the stem. Stem central, subcartilaginous. Gills free, rounded 

 behind. Spores ochraceous, ferruginous, or ochraceous brown, ellip- 

 tical, smooth. Cystidia obpyriform, or ventricose. Growing on wood. 



1 The name Cfdoroapora proposed by Massee for this genus cannot stand, as 

 Spegazzini had previously used it for a genus of the Peronosporaceae. 



