xo.^n CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 



each of them divided into two thick open La" 

 mina^ in the fifllue of which the feeds are fome- 

 times vifible. 



femipetiola- A. fubacaulis Isvis albidus, lamellis fimplicibiis 



tus 23. pallide fiifcis. — VailL parif. t. 10. f. 7. ei for- 



tajfe Michel, gen. t. 6^. Jig. 6, ei 7. Buxhaum. 



Cent. 5. /. zo. f. I. 2. an jigaricus niveus ? Ja- 



qiiin. Fl Aujiriac. /. 288J 



Short-fbalk'd Agaric. Jnglis. 



Upon the trunks of fallen trees and decay'd tim- 

 ber. XI. 



It grows horizontal, fometimes fingle, but gene- 

 rally feveral together lying over one another, of 

 a dry leathern fubftance, a fmooth furface, and 

 either a white or pale yellowifli color. 



The Pileus is about three quarters of a circle in 

 circumference, and generally about an inch in 

 diameter, fometimes feflile, but mod commonly 

 furnifhed with a fliort fpurious footftalk inferr- 

 ed laterally into the Pileus^ on the defeflive 

 fide of its circumference. 



The gills are numerous and fine, ufually of a 

 pale brown color, fometimes decurrenc. 



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