CLAUDOPUS 453 



Spores pink. 

 Claudopus W. G. Sm. 



(Claudus, lame; TTOVS, foot.) 



Pileus fleshy, excentric, lateral, or resupinate. Stem lateral, or 

 none. Gills radiating from a central point, or decurrent. Spores 

 pink, elliptical, globose, oblong, smooth, angular or verrucose, con- 

 tinuous. Cystidia present. Growing on wood, or on the ground. 



1477. C. variabilis (Pers.) W. G. Sm. (= Crepidotus variabilis (Pers.) 

 Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 371, t. 344, top figs. 



Variabilis, variable. 



P. 1-2 cm., white, slightly fleshy, resupinate, then reflexed, tomen- 

 tose, putting forth from the centre a short, incurved, villose stem 

 which is obliterated when the pileus is reflexed. Gills whitish, then 

 rubiginous, at first concurrent in an excentric point, then reaching 

 the base, broad, distant. Flesh white. Spores pink, elliptical, 5-6 x 

 3/A, "warted" Maire. Cystidia "on edge of gill clavate-bottle-shaped, 

 36-45 x 7-9 p, " Rick. On dead sticks, fallen branches, and leaves, 

 in woods, hedgerows, and wood-yards. Jan. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



var. sphaerosporus Pat. <r(f>aipa, a ball; <nropd, seed. 



Differs from the type in the subglobose spores, 7-8 x 6-7/1,. Woods, 

 and hedgerows. Sept. Dec. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1478. C. depluens (Batsch) W. G. Sm. Cke. Illus. no. 371, t. 344, 



middle figs. Depluens, raining down. 



P. 2-3 cm., rufescent-hoary, submembranaceous, resupinate, then 

 reflexed, changeable in form, delicately silky; at first with a villose 

 stem then stemless. Gills grey, then rufescent, scarcely decurrent, 

 diverging, broad, ventricose, somewhat crowded. Flesh thin, watery, 

 fragile. Spores pink, " subelliptical-renif orm, 10-12 x 5-6 /x. Cystidia 

 on edge of gill undulating-filiform, 45-50 x 4-6 p." Rick. On the 

 ground, amongst moss, sawdust, wood-ashes, sometimes in stoves. 

 Oct. Uncommon. 



1479. C. byssisedus (Pers.) Fr. Pers. Icon, et Descr. t. 14, fig. 4. 



/3uo-o-o<?, fine flax; sedeo, I sit. 



P. 1-4 cm., grey, becoming pale when dry, slightly fleshy, at length 

 horizontal, reniform, plane, villose. St. 12 mm. long, incurved, villose, 

 attenuated upwards, zoned at the base with white cottony fibrils. Gills 

 whitish-cinereous, then rubiginous with the spores, adnato-decurrent, 

 ventricose, rather broad. Flesh concolorous, thin. Spores pink, an- 

 gular, broadly elliptical, 10-11 x 7/n, 1-2-guttulate. On dead beech, 

 and wood of hornbeam, also on the ground. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



