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distant, spuriously decur. ; s. very tough, obconic, subrooting, tinged 

 reddish ; sp. 8 10 long. 



[hispidosus, Fr. Caespitose. P. thin, subdimidiate, lobed, in- 

 fundib. hispidly scaly, rusty, edge torn, proliferous ; g. serrulate ; s. 

 many, growing out of each other. 



B. PLEUROTL Dimidiate, sessile or with a sublateral 

 stem. 



scoticus, B. and Br. P. 25 cm. thin, umbil. or infundib. smooth, 

 pallid or brownish, hygr.; g. decur. when stem is present, pallid, 

 strongly toothed ; s. excentric or lateral, variable, darker than p. 

 springing from a branched brown mycelium ; sp. 5 6 x 4. 



fimbriatus, Currey. P. 1 2 cm. thin, depr. behind, pale fawn 

 with darker scales, margin hairy ; g. narrow, tinged brown ; s. '5 cm. 

 thin, whitish ; sp. - . 



[ursinus, Fr. P. sessile, imbricated, ear-shaped, ascending, even, 

 rufous brown, brownish tomentose behind with age, edge entire, 

 glabrous ; g. broad, torn, whitish. 



[castoreus, Fr. P. subsessile, imbricate, pilei tongue-shaped, 

 glabrous, subrugose, rufous then tan, edge involute, entire; g. closely 

 crowded, rufescent. 



vulpinus, Fr. P. 3 5 cm. tough, shell-shaped, imbricate, con- 

 nate behind, longitudinally corrugated with ribs, floccoso-scrupose, 

 tan, edge incurved, entire ; g. broad, torn, white ; sp. glob. 2. 



[auricula, Fr. White, caespitosely imbricated, p. dimidiate, 

 sessile, ascending, glabrous, at length revolute ; g. linear, densely 

 crenulate ; sp. glob. 3. 



Habit of Pleur. porrigens. 



[suavissimis, Fr. Smell very pleasant. Subsessile, white, thin, 

 peltate, even, glabrous; g. dentate, decurrent from base, anasto- 

 mosing. 



flabelliformis, Fr. P. 3 5 cm. subsessile, thin, tough, reniform, 

 glabrous, fawn-colour, edge crenato-fimbriate ; g. broad, torn, 

 pallid. 



[tomentellus, Karst. Subsessile, imbricately tufted, coriaceous, 

 p. horizontal, tongue-shaped or obovoid, tomentose, whitish then 

 tinged rufescent, yellowish when dry, edge wavy, incurved ; g. much 

 crowded, narrow, whitish, tinged red when dry, edge toothed. 



[hygrophanus, Harz. P. conchate, woolly, digitately lobed, 

 white then yellowish ochre, glabrous, hygr. fragile, fixed by a narrow 

 lateral point ; g. densely and acutely dentato-serrate ; sp. glob. 

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