72 OUTLINES OF HltniSII l'TN(;OI.OGV, 



commonly disappearing short of margin of pileus, equal or 

 branched, acute at edge. 



In shady places, on decayed sticks, etc. Uncoramoa. 



388. A. (Omphalia) buccinalis, Soiv. ; an uncertain 

 species. Fries says it approaches A. stellatns, but may be 

 a form of A. umbeUiferus ; B. and Br. say it cannot be 

 either of these species, but that it has the habit )f A. 

 j)tychophylh(s^ Cd. ; gills not plicate. — Sow. f. 107. 



Not uncommon, according to Sowerby. 



389. A. (Omphalia) Nevillse, B. ; pileus ^ in., Irowu, 

 hemispherical, depressed in centre, rugose, minutely granu- 

 lated, striate, then pale towards the undotted ma-gin ; 

 stem brownish, stuffed, white within, rough, with black 

 granules, dilated and clothed with villous hairs at !)ase ; 

 gills white, arcuato-decurrent ; interstices and sides veioso- 

 rugose. 



On Sphagnum, in an orchid pot at Dangstein. 



Subgenus 12. Pleurotus (p. 134). 



I. ExcENTRici. — Pileus latercdly extended, excentric. 



* Veil forming a ring. 



390. A. (Pleurotus) corticatus, />.; pileus 2-() in. grey, 

 then whitish, compact, convex, then flattened, horioutal, 

 entire, when young covered with dense grey dova and 

 margin involute ; flesh hard, shining, white ; sten solid, 

 hard, rooted, excentric, curved-ascending, some whal equal, 

 squamuloso-fibrillose, white ; ring silky-floccose, moerately 

 thick, white, ruptured in a torn manner, adhering 3 stem 

 and margin of pileus, at length vanishing; gilli deeply 

 decurrent, anastomosing behind, dichotomously bnched, 

 somewhat distant, white or becoming yellow when Id. 



On decayed ash, elm, etc. Epping Forest. 



