13G OUTLINES OF HKITISH FUNGOLOGY. 



or obsolete, firm, clastic, strigose at the base ; gills dccurrent, 

 rather distant, anastomosing behind, dirty-Avhite. — Huss. ii. 

 L 19. 



On trees, especially laburnum. Late in the autumn, or 

 winter. Pileus cinereous. A. glandulosns is only a form of 

 this. At least, I have seen decided A. ostrealus with glan- 

 dular gills. 



181'. A. (Pleurotus) salignus, Hoffin. ; pileus at first com- 

 pact, then spongy, subdiniidiate, horizontal, at first pulvinate, 

 even, then depressed, substrigose; stem short, white, tonieu- 

 tose ; gills decurrcnt, somewhat branched, eroded, distinct at 

 the base, nearly of the same colour. 



On trunks of trees. Not common. ^lostly solitary, or at 

 least not densely imbricated. Ochraceous v.'hcn old. 



II. Diiuidia/r, but not restipinate. 



185. A. (Pleiirotus) petaloides, Bull.; ascending; pileus 

 fleshy, entire, spathulate ; disc depressed, villous, as well as 

 the compressed stem ; gills dccurrent, crowded, linear, dirty- 

 white.— 5m//. t. 226, 557. 



On the ground, amongst grass. Rare. Purton. 



186. A. (Pleurotus) serotinus, Schrad. ; pileus fleshy, com- 

 pact, viscid ; stem thick, lateral, squaraulose, with dingy spots; 

 gills determinate, crowded, yellow or pallid. 



On trunks of trees. Rare. Mossburnford, A. Jerdon, Esq. 

 Pileus 2-3 inches across. Easily known by its decided stem. 

 Pileus yellowish or dingy-olive. 



187. A. (Pleurotus). mitis, F. ; pileus slightly fleshy, 

 tough, reniform, even, smooth ; stem lateral, compressed, di- 

 lated above, clothed with little white scales; gills crowded, 

 determinate, distinct, white. (Plate 6, fig. 9.) 



On dead larch. Scotland, Klotzsch. Nottinghamshire, 



