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depressus, Fr. P. 4 5 cm. conico-convex, umb. glabrous, at 

 first superficially silky near striate edge, fuscous then rusty ; g. 

 adnate, saffron then yellowish ; s. hollow, reddish, base fuscous, white- 

 silky; sp. - . 



milvinus, Fr. Strong scented. P. conico-exp. subumb. striate to 

 disc, somewhat olive (tan then pallid\ edge crowned with white 

 innate squamules ; g. adnate, rusty olive, base veined ; s. 4 5 cm. 

 equal, curved, fuscous then pallid, spotted with the white silky veil ; 

 sp. 8K) x 4. 



fasciatus, Fr. P. 1 2 cm. conico-exp. glabrous, fuscescent 

 (brick-red then pallid and silky) umbo acute, blackish ; g. adnate, 

 distant ; s. 4 9 cm. rather wavy, glabrous, fibrously splitting, pallid 

 fuscous ; sp. 8 x 5. 



Differs from C. acutus in very distant g. 



CREPIDOTUS, Fr. 



palmatus, Bull. P. 4 9 cm. compact, convex then exp. irreg. 

 glabrous, pelliculose, rusty ; g. fixed to a collar, colour of p. ; s. 

 excentric or lateral, incurved, glabrous, whitish ; sp. subg. 10. 



Differs from Pleurotus subpalmatus in rusty sp. 



A form with a central s. occurs. 



[hypsophilus, R. Fries. Subcaespitose. P. fleshy, compact, 

 irreg. laterally produced, entire, convex then plane, edge becoming 

 upturned, glabrous, fuscous tan ; g. emarginate, crowded, dingy 

 yellow ; s. very excentric, short, curved whitish. 



[nidulans, Mass. ( = Pleurotus nidvlans, Fr., Crepidotus jun- 

 quillea (Paulet) Lucand.) P. fleshy, at first resupinate then expanded, 

 sessile, subreniform, tomentose, yellow; g. broad, rather distant, 

 tawny-orange ; sp. tawny. 



alveolus, Lasch. P. 2 4 cm. soft, lateral, obovate, wavy, plane, 

 glabrous, ochre-fuscous, sessile or produced behind into a short stem- 

 like downy base ; g. broad ; sp. 7 8 long. 



[stiriacus, Wetts. P. fleshy-fibrous, ovate-shell-shaped, semi- 

 orbicular, or cuneiform, simple, lobed or partite, tomentose; g. 

 dense, ochre-fuscous ; s. lateral, very short ; sp. 5 7 x 3. 



mollis, Fr. P. 3 7 cm. gelatinously fleshy, soft, obovate or 

 reniform, flaccid, subsessile, glabrous, pallid then greyish ; g. decur. 

 from base, crowded, linear, whitish then watery cinnamon ; sp. 8 9 

 X5 6. 



putrigenus, B. and C. Imbricate, sessile ; p. 2 3 cm. subreni- 

 form, whitish, tomentose; g. broad, rusty-brown; sp. subglobose, 

 6 7, rusty. 



applanatus, Fr. P. 2 5 cm. soft, fragile, plane, reniform or 

 cuneate, whitish, produced behind into a very short white-downy 

 base; g. determinate, crowded, whitish then pale cinnamon; sp. 

 5x3. 



[scalaris, Fr. Imbricated. P. submembranaceous, very soft, 



