454 CREPIDOTUS 



Spores ochraceous. 



Crepidotus Fr. 



(Kpi)7rl<;, a man's boot; ov<?, ear.) 



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

 none. Gills more or less decurrent, or radiating from a central point. 

 Spores ochraceous, ferruginous, or fuscous; elliptical, subglobose, 

 oval, or fusiform; smooth, granular, verrucose, or echinulate; con- 

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

 C. palmatus (BuU.) Fr. = Pleurotus palmatus (Bull.) Quel. 



1480. C. nidulans (Pers.) Quel. Ench. (= Pleurotus nidulans (Pers.) 

 Fr.; Crepidot us jonquilla (Paul.) Quel.) Pers. Icon, et Descr. 

 t. 6, fig. 4. Nidulans, nestling. 



P. 1-8 cm., yellow, or yellow orange, becoming pale, fleshy, resupinate, 

 cup-shaped, then expanded and reflexed, dimidiate, kidney-shaped, 

 sessile, tomentose, the tomentum concolorous, or becoming whitish; 

 margin inrolled, often lobed and orange-coloured. Gills orange tawny, 

 at first concurrent, then adnate, 2-4 mm. broad, subdistant, often 

 veined on the sides. Flesh yellowish, becoming whitish when dry, 

 staining paper a yellow colour, thick, soft. Spores bright ochraceous, 

 broadly elliptical, 5-6 x 4/i, 1-2-guttulate. Smell pleasant, "of 

 melon" Quel. Gregarious, sometimes imbricate. On rotten pine, and 

 beech wood. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1481. C. alveolus (Lasch) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 534, t. 499, upper figs. 



Alveolus, a little trough. 



P. 2-6 cm., ochraceous fuscous, occasionally becoming olive at the 

 margin, becoming pale when dry, fleshy, obovate, somewhat cunei- 

 form, sometimes repand, rather plane, moist, smooth, dimidiate, 

 laterally somewhat sessile, or extended behind with a short, stem-like 

 tomentoso-villous base and horizontal. Gills clay-fuscous, determinate, 

 4 mm. broad, crowded. Flesh whitish, thick, soft. Spores brownish, 

 elliptical, 8-10 x 6/u. Stumps and logs, especially oak. Aug. Nov. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1482. C. moffls (Schaeff.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 535, t. 498. Mollis, soft. 

 P. 3-7 cm., pallid, then becoming hoary, fleshy, convexo-plane, ob- 

 ovate, or reniform, undulate and lobed when larger, flaccid, smooth, 

 dimidiate, subsessile, or extended behind into a short, 12mm., strigose 

 st., often imbricated. Gills whitish grey, then watery cinnamon, com- 

 monly decurrent to the base, linear, 2-4 mm. broad, often branched. 

 Flesh watery whitish, subgelatinous especially under the cuticle, thick. 

 Spores ochraceous, elliptical, 8-9 x 5/u,. Cystidia "on edge of gill 

 cylindrical-filiform, 45-54 x 5-6 /u" Rick. Taste mild. Edible. 

 Stumps, twigs, fallen branches, and sawdust. May Dec. Common. 

 (v.v.) 



