CLASSIFICATION 223 



Trogia 



Cap stemless, attached laterally, soft, dry, thin, persistent ; gills 

 resembling folds. 



T. crispa (PI. XXX, fig. 7). — Cap |-i in. across, saucer-shaped 

 when young, then expanding, and lying almost flat on the wood, 

 gills uppermost ; gills vein-like, thickish, narrow, edge blunt, 

 greyish white. 



Often in clusters, resembling a Mcynliiis, to which genus I con- 

 sider it in reality belongs. Differs from the small species of Can- 

 thayellus in being quite persistent, and not deliquescing and dis- 

 appearing at maturity. 



SCHIZOPHYLLUM 



Cap thin, dr}-, fibrous, stemless, narrowed to a point of attach- 

 ment at the edge ; gills narrow, edge split into two recur\-ed 

 portions. 



S. commune (PI. XXX, fig. 3). — Cap more or less fan-shaped, edge 

 often lobed, whitish, fibrous, |-i in. across ; gills radiating from the 

 point of attachment. 



Cannot be mistaken for any other fungus if attention is paid to 

 the split edge of the gills. The only European species, the genus 

 is abundantly represented in the tropics. Dry and persistent for 

 some time. On trunks and dead wood. 



Sub-Family Chlorospore.e 

 Structurally, this group agrees with Sdiiilzeria, in the Leuco- 

 sporeae. The leading features are the green gills and the green spores. 

 Only one genus, Chlorospora, including one species, C. eyrei, occurs, 

 so far as known, in the Old World, and that one species is confined to 

 England. The family is better represented in the New World, 

 where a second genus, called ChloropJiyllum, includes species as 

 large as Lepiota procera, some of which are edible. 



Chlorospora 



The species forming this genus have the general appearance of 

 species of Lepiota, but the gills are green, due to the green spores. 

 C. eyrei, a rare British species, is the only European representative 

 of the order, which is better represented in the New World, where 

 the species are as large as our largest species of Lepiota, and one 

 species met with in British Guiana is edible, and considered a 

 luxury. 



Agreeing in structure with the genus Plufcus in the Khodo- 

 sporea?. 



C. eyrei. — Cap convex, then expanded and broadly umbonate, 

 edge incurved at first, smooth or minutely granular, and tinged ochre 



