SECTION PETALOIDES. 



12. CARNOSUS. FLESHY, SOFT, THICK SPECIES. 



HIRTUS (Fig. 426). Surface brown, velutinate or hirsute. 

 Flesh white. Stipe lateral. Spores peculiar, fusiform, 6x14-16, 

 hyaline, smooth. A very rare plant both in Europe and the United 

 States. 



AQUOSUS This has a strong, lateral stipe. Flesh white, soft, 

 watery, thick, drying thin. Pores small, white. Known from two 

 collections, both from Brazil, also one (?) from India. 



RUTROSUS. A good picture of a petaloid, fleshy, white species with 

 medium large pores, published by Rostkovius seventy years ago. Found or 

 imagined in Germany, but known to no one since. 



Fig. 427 

 Petaloides fusco-maculatus 



FUSCO-MACULATUS (Fig. 427). Flesh soft, watery, not 

 "papyraceus-membranaceous" but so drying. Surface spotted with 

 minute spots. Pores large. Spores oblong, 3-4x8-10. Found by me 

 in Samoa. Has no relation to squamosus to which it was compared. 



GLUTINIFER. Known from a single, sliced specimen at Kew, and is I 

 think probably the same as the preceding. It is said to have come from Mauritius, 

 but it was more probably from Australia. 



Osseus. See Addenda, page 191. 



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