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Claudopus, the analogous germs in the Uliodosporac ; the 

 latter is distinguished hy the pink or salmon-coloured gills 

 and spores. 



Crepidotus palmatus. Bull. 



PUeus 2-4 in. across, fleshy, compact, convex then ex- 

 panded, irregular, glabrous, peUiculose, ferruginous ; gills 

 fixed to a collar, ventricose, rather distant, ferruginous; stem 

 excentric or lateral, incurved, firm, glabrous, whitish. 



Agaricus palmatus, Bulliaid, Champ., pi. 216; Fries, Hym. 

 Eur., p. 275; Cke., Hdbk., p. 189. 



On trunks. 



Sometimes confused with Pleurotus giibpalmaius, but dis- 

 tinguished by the ferruginous spores. Flesh firm, but at the 

 same time spongy and bibulous. (Fries.) 



Crepidotus mollis. Fr. 



Pileus IJ— 3 in. across, flesh rather gelatinous, soft, obovate 

 or reniform, flaccid, subsessile, glabrous, pale dingy tan then 

 greyish ; gills radiating from the base of attachment of the 

 pileus, crowded, about 1?^ line broad, whitish then watery 

 cinnamon. 



Agarkus mollis, Schaeffer, t. 213; Cke., Hdbk., p. 189; 

 Cke., Ulustr., pi. 498. 



On rotten trunks, stumps, &c. 



Dimidiate, subsessile (varies with the posterior margin 

 extended as a strigose stem, |- in. long), often imbricated, 

 convexo-plane, obovate or reniform, undulated and lobed in 

 large specimens, flaccid, even, glabrous, pallid then hoary, 

 at length spotted with rufous from the falling spores ; flesh 

 very soft, more or less thick, watery w^hitish. Gills usually 

 decurrent from the base, 1-2 lines broad, crowded, greyish- 

 white then watery cinnamon. (Fries.) 



Crepidotus applanatus. Fr. 



Pileus 1-2 in, across, rather fleshy, soft, fragUe, plane, 

 reniform or wedge-shaped, whitish, produced behind into a 

 very short whitish tomentose stem ; gills determinate, 

 crowded, narrow, white then pale cinnamon. 



Agartcug (^Crepidotus") applanatus. Fries, Monogr., i. p. 399 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 190. 



