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Claudopus, the analogous genus in the Rhodosporac ; the 

 latter is distinguished by the pink or salmon-coloured gills 

 and spores. 



Crepidotus palmatus. Bull. 



Fileus 2-4 in. across, fleshy, compact, convex then ex- 

 panded, irregular, glabrous, pelliculose, ferruginous; gills 

 tixed to a collar, ventricose, rather distant, ferruginous; stem 

 excentric or lateral, incurved, firm, glabrous, whitish. 



Agaricus palmatus, Bulliard, Champ., pi. 216; Fries, Hym. 

 Eur., p. 275; Cke., Hdbk., p. 189. 



On trunks. 



Sometimes confused with Pleurotus subpalmatus, but dis- 

 tinguished by the ferruginous spores. Flesh firm, but at the 

 same time spongy and bibulous. (Fries.) 



Crepidotus xnollis. Fr. 



Pileus l|-3 in. across, flesh rather gelatinous, soft, obovate 

 or reniform, flaccid, subsessile, glabrous, pale dingy tan then 

 greyish ; gills radiating from the base of attachment of the 

 pileus, crowded, about 1| line broad, whitish then watery 

 cinnamon. 



Agaricus mollis, Schaeffer, t. 213; Cke., Hdbk., p. 189; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 498. 



On rotten trunks, stumps, &c. 



Dimidiate, subsessile (varies with the posterior margin 

 extended as a strigose stem, in. long), often imbricated, 

 c.-onvexo-plane, obovate or reniform, undulated and lobed in 

 large specimens, flaccid, even, glabrous, pallid then hoary, 

 at length spotted with rufous from the falling spores ; flesh 

 very soft, more or less thick, watery whitish. Gills usually 

 decurrent from the base, 1-2 lines broad, crowded, greyish- 

 white then watery cinnamon. (Fries.) 



Crepidotus applanatus. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in, across, rather fleshy, soft, fragile, plane, 

 reniform or wedge-shaped, whitish, produced behind into a 

 very short whitish tomentose stem ; gills determinate, 

 crowded, narrow, white then pale cinnamon. 



Agaricus (Crepidotus) applanatus, Fries, Monogr., i. p. 399; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 190. ' 



