SECTION PETALOIDES. 





Fig 447 

 Petaloides affinis. 



Fig. 448 

 Petaloides vernicipes. 



CARNEO-NIGER. Same characters as luteus except its black color. Oc- 

 curs in the East. It is the same plant as microloma, an earlier name for it. 



FLABELLIFORMIS. Stipe black, lateral. Pilcus with pubes- 

 cent zones. Same as luteus except the pubescent zones of the pileus. 

 It varies in all degrees however as to this character. It is the most 

 abundant species in Africa, Samoa, and the East in general. 



PTERYGODES. Pileus sessile; hence does not belong to this section but 

 placed here from analogy, as it is surely a sessile plant of the same nature as 

 the other and perhaps simply a sessile condition of xanthopus. 



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