Leucosporse 



XEft'OTUS Fr. 



Gr. dry ; Gr. an ear. 



(Plate LVI.) 



Hymenophore continuous with Xerotus. 

 the stem, descending into the 

 trama which is homogeneous with 

 the coriaceous pileus. Gills cori- 

 aceous, broadly plicaeform, di- 

 chotomous, edge quite entire, ob- 

 tuse. Rigid, persistent, analogous 

 with the Cantharelli, but differing 

 ill the whole structure. Fries. 



The gills are more distant than 

 in any species of Agaricaceae. 



None edible. 



XEROTUS DEGENER. 



TRO'GIA Fr. 



After Trog, a Swiss botanist. 



Gills fold-like, edge longitudinally channelled (in the single Eu- 



(Plate LVI I.) 



ropean species only crisped). In 

 other respects agreeing with Xero- 

 tus. Soft, flaccid, but arid and 

 persistent, textiire fibrillose . Fries. 



Reviving when wet. Spores 

 white. Stevenson. 



Spores elongated or cylindrical. 



American representative, Trogia 

 crispa, var. variegata. 



Pileus and gills variegated with bluish or greenish-blue stains, 

 lake. September. Peck, 38th Rep. N. Y. State Dot. 



Not edible. 



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TROGIA CRISPA. 

 Natural size. 



Sand- 



