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AGARICACE/E 



Trogia 



European species obtuse, crisped, not channelled as in non-European 

 species. Spores white. (Fig. 70.) 



Growing on wood, becoming dry and reviving with moisture. 

 1449. T. erispa Fr. (from the crisped gills) a b c. 



P. cup-shaped, expanded, resupinate, light-yellowish-rufescent, 

 zoned rufous; marg. whitish, sometimes almost white. St. 

 obsolete or rudimentary. G. vein-like, dichotomous, narrow, 

 white to steel-grey. 



Gregarious, imbricate. Logs, branches, twigs, beech, birch ; uncommon. 

 Jan. -Dec. Diam. i in. Sometimes almost wholly white. 



LVI1. SCHIZOPHYLLUM Fr. 



(From the gills, split longitudinally at the edge ; 

 Gr. schizo, to split, phullon, a leaf.) 



Veil obsolete. Pileus thin, arid. Stem lateral or none. Gills 

 coriaceous, channelled longitudinally with edges revolute. Spores 

 white. (Fig. 71.) 



Fig. Ti.Schizophyllum commune Fr., entire and in section. 

 Natural size. A, section across gills. X 10. 



1450. S. commune Fr. (from its being common in certain countries ; 



community common) a b c. 



P. arid, at first cup-like, then expanded, reniform or excentric, 

 resupinate, downy, white or umber-white, commonly zoned 

 greyish. St. rudimentary or none. G. splitting, the edges 

 revolute, fuscous-grey to purplish, cinereous or clay-white to 

 tan-salmon. 



Said to be edible. Sold in a dry state in China for soup ; 800 Ibs were 

 exported from Auckland, New Zealand, to China in 1872. Dead wood, 

 rotten trunks, logs, water-butts, beer-casks, wood in greenhouses, horse- 

 chestnut, beech, alder, dry hay in silos ; rare in Britain. May -Jan. 

 Diam. 2 in. 



