452 PLEUROTUS. SCHIZOPHYLLTJM 



1473. P. striatulus Fr. (= Calathinus striatulus (Fr.) Quel.) Fr. Icon 

 t. 89, fig. 5. Striatulus, somewhat striate 



Entirely pale cinereous. P. 4-7 mm., sessile, cup-shaped, very tender, 

 pellucid, striate, wrinkled when dry. Gills sometimes whitish, few, 

 distant. Spores white, "oval, 5/j," Quel. On twigs, branches, and 

 stumps of fir, hazel, elm. May Dec. Uncommon. 



1474. P. hypnophilus Berk. (= Calathinus hypnophilus (Berk.) Quel.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 292, t. 212, fig. C. 



Hypnum, the name of a moss genus ; (1X09, loving. 



Entirely white. P. 5-10 mm., sessile, resupinate, somewhat reni- 



form, rugose, slightly striate. Gills thin, crowded, radiating from a 



central point. Spores white, elliptical, 5 x 3 p. On the larger mosses, 



and fallen leaves. Sept. Dec. Uncommon. 



1475. P. chioneus (Pers.) Fr. (= Calathinus chioneus (Pers.) Quel.) 

 Cke. Illus. no. 292, t. 212, fig. D. %*&>", snow. 



Entirely snow-white. P. 4-5 mm., very tender, lateral, then resu- 

 pinate, orbicular, becoming reniform, villose; margin involute. St. 

 1-2 x -5 mm., villose, vanishing. Gills radiating, crowded, rather 

 broad, sometimes with intermediate shorter ones. Spores white, 

 pip-shaped, depressed on one side, 5-8 x 3p,, minutely verrucose. 

 On twigs, dead leaves, and dung. Sept. Dec. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



Spores white, gill edge longitudinally split. 



Schizophyllum Fr. 

 (<r\a'&>, I split; <f)v\\ov, a leaf.) 



Pileus coriaceous, resupinate. Stem lateral or none. Gills radiating 

 from a central point, becoming longitudinally split and revolute at 

 the edge. Spores white, cylindrical, smooth, continuous. Cystidia 

 none. Growing on wood. 



1476. S. commune Fr. (= Schizophyllum commune Fr. var. multi- 

 fidum Massee.) Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. t. 61. 



Commune, common. 



P. 1-3 cm., greyish, or flesh colour, becoming white, more or less fan- 

 shaped, or reniform, often much lobed, very arid, pendulous, com- 

 monly extended behind into a stem-like base, covered with white-grey 

 down, then strigose. Gills fuscous-grey, then purplish, or whitish, split- 

 ting and revolute at the edge, radiating, narrow. Flesh brownish, be- 

 coming whitish. Spores white, cylindrical, straight, or curved, 6 x 3/n. 

 On fallen trunks, and dead branches in woods, also in timber yards 

 on imported timber. May Jan. Not uncommon. 



