CLASSIFICATION 247 



deeply deciirrent, pink ; stem about i in. long, thin, smooth, 

 whitish. 



Differing in its snow-white, pruinose cap from all other known 

 species. 



Among cocoanut fibre. Probably an introduced species. 



Claudopus 



Cap excentric, lateral or resupinate ; stem very short or entirely 

 absent ; gills sinuate or decurrent. 



Minute fungi known by the excentric or resupinate cap and 

 rudimentary or obsolete stem. When young the gills are whitish, 

 and are then liable to be confounded with the minute kinds of 

 Pleurotus. 



C. variabilis (PI. XVII, fig. 5). — Cap J-f in. across, resupinate or 

 fixed by the cap, gills uppermost, then more or less turned over, and 

 often M'ith a very short, stem-like base, edge incurved, silky with 

 white down, very thin, often wavy ; gills radiating from the point of 

 attachment, white, then pale salmon-colour. 



On dead wood, branches, etc. 



C. depliiens. — Cap up to I in. across, edge incurved, whitish or 

 tinged red, hoary ; stem lateral, short, or absent ; gills broad, 

 crowded, grey, then reddish. 



Very variable, sometimes with a central stem. 



On the ground, usually attached to moss. 



C. byssisedus. — Cap up to | in. across, resupinate, then horizontal, 

 reniform or kidney-shaped, edge incurved, doM'uy, grey, becoming 

 pale ; stem lateral, very short ; gills grey with a pink tinge. 



Known by the grey cap. Resembles Pleurotus applicatus, differing 

 in the stem and pink gills. 



On rotten wood and on the ground. 



Sub-Family Ochrospore^ 



This group contains a large assemblage of genera, linked together 

 by the general colour of the spores, which ranges from pale, dingy 

 ochraceous, through bright ochraceous to deep rusty orange. 

 Negatively defined, the spores are never white, salmon-colour, 

 black nor purplish black. As in the previous groups, the genera 

 range from species furnished with a volva or a ring, free, adnate, 

 and decurrent gills, etc., cap with a central stem, through 

 genera where volva and ring are both absent, and in the 

 most reduced forms, to where the stem has disappeared, and 

 the reduced cap is attached to the matrix, having the gills upper- 

 most. 



Many of the species are large and brightly coloured. 



