PLETJROTUS 443 



thin, crowded. Flesh white, thick. Spores white, " obovate-globose, 

 5-5 x 4-5 /A" Sacc. Smell of new meal, taste pleasant. Edible. On 

 trunks. Oct. Nov. Hare. 



P. decorus Fr. = Tricholoma decorum (Fr.) Quel. 



1438. P. palmatus (Bull.) Fr. (= Pkurotus subpalmatus Fr. ; Pluteus 

 reticulatus Cke.; Entoloma Cookei Rich.) Cke. Illus. no. 273, 

 t. 255, as Pleurotus subpalmatus Fr. 



Palmatus, having the shape of a hand. 



Entirely more or less rufescent. P. 5-12 cm., of a beautiful orange- 

 buff or nankeen colour, convex, then flattened, obtuse, imbricated and 

 glued together, horizontal, more or less excentric, pruinose; margin 

 involute, reticulato-corrugated. Cuticle gelatinous, thick, tough, diapha- 

 nous, distilling limpid rufescent drops with an astringent taste. St. 

 3-7 x 1-1-5 cm., whitish, becoming rufescent, fibrilloso-striate, prui- 

 nose, equal, curved-ascending. Gills paler than the pileus, joined in 

 a collar behind, sinuate, connected by veins, broad, crowded. Flesh 

 white, then tinged with red. Spores pink, or pale yellowish, globose, 

 4-6 /z, verrucose, 1-guttulate. Smell pleasant, taste bitter and acrid. 

 Caespitose. On elm trunks, old posts and beams. Sept. Jan. Not 

 uncommon, (v.v.) 



1439. P. craspedius Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 86, fig. 2. 



Kpd<nre8ov, the margin of a thing. 



P. 7-13 cm., brick colour, becoming pale tan, sometimes cinereous, 

 more or less excentric, sometimes sublateral, but marginate behind, 

 thin, at length almost membranaceous towards the margin, flaccid, 

 plane, depressed behind when very excentric, smooth, somewhat 

 moist; margin at first involute, then evolute, elegantly crenato-lobed, 

 fimbriate. St. 2-5-7-5 x 1-2-5 cm., pallid, firm, elastic, very unequal, 

 either thickened at the base, or equal, sometimes villose at the base. 

 Gills shining white, wholly adnate, very thin, crowded, narrow, at 

 length lacerated. Flesh watery, white when dry. Spores white, 

 "5 x 4-5 /x" Sacc. Smell "strong, of cucumber" W. G. Sm. Caespitose. 

 On rotten wood, and trunks, especially old poplars. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



1440. P. fimbriatus (Bolt.) Fr. (= Clitocybe fimbriata (Bolt.) Quel.) 

 Cke. Ulus. no. 275, t. 178, fig. 1. Fimbriatus, fringed. 



P. 5-8 cm., whitish, hyaline, hygrophanous, slightly fleshy, convexo- 

 plane, then infundibuliform, more or less excentric, occasionally 

 lateral, pruinose; margin sinuato-lobed, incised. St. 1-4 cm. x 4- 

 10 mm., concolorous, tough, round, or compressed, base pubescent. 

 Gills white, wholly adnate, very narrow, very thin, very crowded. Flesh 

 thin, tough, watery-pallid. Spores white, "oval, 3-5-5 x 2-5-3 JM, 

 minutely rough" Sacc. Smell of new meal. Edible. On dead trunks, 

 especially beech. Aug. Jan. Rare. 



