448 PLETJBOTUS 



1455. P. rufipes Massee & W. G. Sm. Rufus, red; pes, foot. 

 P. 3-4 mm., white, disc salmon, membranaceous, dimidiate, or reni- 



form, convex, very glutinous when moist; margin incurved. St. 4-6 x 

 5 mm., reddish, viscous, becoming recurved, base white downy. Gills 

 white, interstices pale salmon, adnate, broad, distant. Flesh of stem 

 salmon-red, centre white. Spores white, oblong, 2-2-5 x -75/u. On 

 wood. Sept. Oct. Eare. 



1456. P. gadinoides W. G. Sm. Cke. Illus. no. 286, t. 276, top figs. 



Gadinia, a species of bivalve; eZSo?, like. 



Entirely white. P. 11*5 cm., dimidiate, shell-shaped, hygrophanous, 

 smooth, or clothed with fine adpressed fiocci. St. minute, lateral, or 

 none. Gills adnate, somewhat crowded, slightly branched. Spores 

 white, elliptical, 7 x 3/u. On tree-fern stems. May. Rare. 



1457. P. limpidus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 88, fig. 3. Limpidus, clear. 

 Entirely hyaline white, shining white when dry. P. 2-3 cm., obovate, 



or reniform, horizontal, narrowed behind into a stem-like base, pruinose ; 

 margin shortly inflexed, very thin. Gills decurrent at the base, crowded, 

 thin, linear. Spores white, "globose, 6 /A, with a large central gutta" 

 Quel.; "subcylindrical, obtusely rounded at both ends, obliquely 

 apiculate at the base, 7-8 x 3-4 /x" Sacc. On ash, beech, and willow 

 stumps. Nov. Jan. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1458. P. reniformis Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 89, fig. 3. 



Reniformis, kidney -shaped. 



P. 6-10 mm., cinereous, horizontal, reniform, plane, emarginate be- 

 hind, villose; margin spreading. St. rudimentary, lateral, villose. Gills 

 grey, linear, running out from the stem-like tubercle, thin. Flesh thin, 

 somewhat gelatinous, diaphanous. Spores white, globose, 3-4/z, 

 warted, 1-guttulate. On buried twigs, and branches of silver-fir. 

 Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1459. P. Laurocerasi B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 287, t. 242, top figs. 



Cerasus Laurocerasus, the cherry laurel. 



P. 2-3 cm., brown, oyster-shaped, sulcate, cuticle very thin, cracking 

 at the furrows. St. obsolete. Gills pinkish, adnate, connected by veins, 

 broad. Spores white, ovate, 8 x 5 /A. On a trunk of cherry laurel. 

 Oct. Rare. 



1460. P. tremulus (Schaefi.) Fr. Sow. Eng. Fung. t. 242. 



Tremulus, shaking. 



P. 14 cm., fuscous-grey, becoming pale, submembranaceous, some- 

 what horizontal, reniform, plane, sometimes infundibuliform and 

 lobed, hygrophanous, diaphanous, tomentose under a lens. St. 8- 

 12 x 4-6 mm., grey, exactly lateral, ascending-vertical, round, dilated 



