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391. A. (Pleurotus) dryinus, P. (p. 134) ; 2-6 in. 

 Epping Forest. 



392. A. (Pleiirotus) spongiosus, Fr. ; pileus 2-3 in., 

 tomentose, with persistent cinereous down, fleshy, excentric, 

 somewhat lateral, pulvinate ; flesh laxly floccose, white ; 

 stem short, or almost obsolete, incurved, excentric, white, 

 tomentose ; ring white, soon torn, appendiculate at margin 

 of pileus, soon vanishing ; gills sinuato-adnexed, with a 

 decurrent tooth, simple, separate, crowded, entire, white. 



On rotten beech and other trunks. Epping Forest. 



** Veil none, gills sinuate en' obtusely adnate. 



393. A. (Pleurotus) ulmarius, Bvll. (p. 134) ; 3-5 in. 

 Epping Forest. 



394. A. (Pleurotus) tessulatus, Bull. ; solitary or csespi- 

 tose, pileus 3-5 in., becoming pale-livid, often marbled with 

 spots, fleshy, compact, horizontal, regular, but somewhat 

 excentric, convex, then plane, disc-shaped, even, smooth ; 

 flesh white, tough ; stem solid, compact, equal, or attenu- 

 ated at base, excentric, even, smooth, white ; gills sinuate 

 behind, uncinato-adnate, thin, crowded, white, becoming 

 yellow. 



On trunks. Coed Coch. 



395. A. (Pleurotus) subpalmatus, Fr. (p. 135) ; 2-1 in. 

 Epping Forest. 



396. A. (Pleurotus) craspedius, Fr. ; ca^spitose ; pileus 

 3-5 in., brick colour, pale tan or cinereous, excentric, 

 fleshy, thin, almost membranous at margin, flaccid, plane, 

 even, smooth, moist, without a separable pellicle ; margin 

 at first involute, elegantly crenato-lobed and fimbriate ; 

 flesh thin, watery, white when dry ; stem thick, solid, firm, 

 elastic, internally spongy, generally unequal, pallid, com- 



