Pleurotus AGARICACE.E 



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401. 0. Bellise Karst. (after the Misses Bell of Coldstream) a b. 



P. infundibuliform, pale livid-brown ; marg. waved and furrowed. 

 St. whitish above, pale brown below, springing from a slightly 

 enlarged, floccose base. G. wrinkled, veined, white. 



Dead reeds. Oct. $ x if X ^ in. 



401a. 0. graeilis Quel. (gracilis, slender) a. Wholly white. 



P. membranous, campanulate, papillate, striate, smooth, trans- 

 parent. St. filiform, fistulose, transparent, pruinose, fibrillose 

 at base. G. distant, very decurrent, thin. 

 Dead grass. Oct. X i X fa in. 



402. 0. graeillima Quel. (gradllimus, very slender) a b. White. 



P. convex, subumbonate then plane and umbilicate. St. springing 

 from a floccose base. G. fold-like, disappearing short of 

 marg. of P. 



Scattered. Dead sticks, herbaceous stems. Aug. ^ x I X 3*3 in. 



403. 0. bullula Sacc. (from its watery appearance ; bullula, a watery 



vesicle) a. White. 

 P. hemispherical, diaphanous. 

 Scattered. Dead sticks, twigs. Autumn. x f X 3*5 in. 



e. Integrella. 



404. 0. integrella Quel. (from its perfect structure ; integer, whole) 



a b c. White. 

 P. hemispherical, depressed or plane. St. pilose downwards to 



a minute villous disc at base. G. adnato-decurrent disappearing 



short of marg. of P. 

 Commonly fasciculate. Shady places, woods, on decayed sticks, rotten wood, 



grass, twigs, etc. May-Oct. ^ X X ^ in. 



405. 0. bueeinalis Sacc. (from its trumpet-shaped pileus; bucdna, 



a trumpet) a. White. 

 P. fleshy, piano-depressed. St. with a stellate disc at base. G. 



vein-like as in Cantharellus. 

 Twigs, stems, etc. ; common. X I X & in. Sometimes branching as in 



1437 on a small scale. 



406. O. NEVILLE Sacc. (after Lady Dorothy Neville) a. 



P. hemispherico-depressed, granulate, striate, brown becoming 

 pale at marg. St. very thin, brown, rough with black gr., 

 villous, subdilated at base. G. veined at sides and interstices. 



On Sphagnum in orchid-pot. X I X % in. 



XI. PLEUROTUS Quel. 



(From a fancied resemblance in many of the species to an 

 ear ; Gr. pleuron, a side, ous, an ear.) 



Veil universal, seen in the squamules, scurf and appendiculate 

 margin of the pileus and in the fugitive annulus, sometimes developed 



