376 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Resembling Panus stypticus in habit and size, but dis- 

 tinguished by its white colour and glabrous pileus. 



Firm, tasteless, white or lufescent, in the young state 

 spathulate, and the stem quite distinct, the pileus gradually 

 dilates, the stem becomes obsolete, and the pileus reniform, 

 the outer margins meeting, and the one overlapping the 

 other ; the upper stratum gelatinous. (Berk.) 



Pleurotus gadinoides. Smith, (figs. 12, 13, p. 301.) 



Pileus about | in. across, rather fleshy tender, horizontal, 

 semi-circnlar or" shell-shaped, white, hygrophanous, covered 

 with delicate adpressed, floccose down, with no gelatinous 

 upper stratum ; stem minute, lateral, or absent; gills some- 

 what crowded, and slightly branched ; white; spores ellip- 

 tical, 7 X 3 p. 



Agaricus (Pleurotus) gadinoides, W. G. Smith, Journ. Bot. y 

 1873, t. 129, f. 1-4; Cke., Hdbk., p. 107; Cke., Illustr., 

 pi. 27 6 A. 



On tree-fern stem in hot-house. 



Probably an introduced species. 



Pleurotus limpidus. Fr. 



Pileus 7^1 in. across, flesh thin, obovate or reniform, 

 horizontal, even, glabrous, hygrophanous, white when moist, 

 shining white when dry, not furnished with a viscid pellicle, 

 margin A^eiy thin, shortly inflextd; gills thin, crowded, 

 white; true stem absent, bxit the pileus narrowed I ehiir.l 

 into a very short, stem-like base, on which the gills are 

 decnrrent. 



Agaricus (Pleurotus) limpidus, Fries, Epicr., p. 135; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 107; Cke., Illustr., pi. 276s. 



On rotten trunks of beech, &c. 



With the habit and substance of P. mitis, but entirely 

 shining white, and subsessile. (Fries.) 



Pleurotus reniformis. Fr. 



Pileus ^ in. across, rather fleshy, horizontal, reniforro, 

 grey, rather notched behind, and furnished with a very 

 >hort, rudimentary, downy stem; gills diverging from the 

 stem-like base, thin, narrow, crowded, grey. 



Agaricus (Pleurotus) reniformis, Fries, Yet. Akad. Farh., 

 1873, p. 5; Cke., Hdbk., p. 108 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 276c. 



