536 PANUS. XEROTUS 



edge of gill lanceolate, clavate at first, 30 x 15ju,, then 40-70 x 7- 

 8ju," Rick. Taste very astringent. Poisonous. On dead stumps, and 

 fallen branches. Jan. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



var. farinaceus (Schum.) Rea. Farinaceus, mealy. 



Differs from the type in the cuticle of the pileus breaking up into 

 whitish-bluish-grey scurf. Trunks, and fir branches. Oct. Dec. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



var. albido-tomentosus (Cke. & Massee) Rea. Cke. lUus. no. 1097, 

 t. 1144, fig. B, as Panus farinaceus Fr. 



Albidus, whitish; tomentosus, hairy. 



Differs from the type in the pileus being densely clothed with a short, 

 whitish, velvety tomentum. Trunks. Uncommon. 



***P. resupinate, sessile, or extended behind. 



1770. P. patellaris Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 176, fig. 3. 



Patellaris, like a little dish. 



P. 10-15 mm., pallid externally, viscid, furfuraceo-villose, resupinate, 

 coriaceous, orbicular, piano-cup- shaped, adnate by the sessile vertex; 

 the free margin involute, villose, white. Gills dark ochraceous, con- 

 current in a central point, crowded. Flesh ochraceous. Spores white, 

 "elliptical, 8 ju," Quel. On beech, and cherry branches. Oct. March. 

 Uncommon. 



1771. P. Stevensonii B. & Br. 



Rev. John Stevenson, the eminent Scotch mycologist. 



P. olivaceous-light-yellow, spathulate. St. golden, dilated upwards, 

 convex, slightly hispid. Gills narrow, entire. Flesh greenish-yellow. 

 On oak. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



Pileus membranaceous-coriaceous, gills coriaceous, branched, obtuse. 



Xerotus Fr. 



(1^/309, dry; ofc, an ear.) 



Pileus membranaceous-coriaceous, regular. Stem central, confluent 

 with the pileus. Gills coriaceous, broadly plicaeform, dichotomous, 

 edge entire, obtuse. Spores white, elliptical, irregular. Growing on 

 the ground. 



1772. X. degener Fr. (= Cantharellus carbonarius (A. & S.) Fr. sec. 

 Quel.) Degener, degenerate. 



P. l'5-4 cm., date-brown-grey when moist, grey when dry, somewhat 

 zoned, coriaceo-membranaceous, very thin, but very tough, plano- 

 infundibuliform, striate when moist, flocculose when dry. St. 4-20 x 

 2 mm., fuscous, somewhat white-velvety, very tough, equal. Gills 



