302 PUNGUS-FLOEA. 



SCHIZOPHYLLUM. Tries, (figs. 17, 18, p. 301.) 



Pileus with a tliin strigose or downy cuticle, dry, flesh 

 ahsent, lateral, sessile ; gills coriaceous, bifid, radiating in a 

 flabellate manner, margin longitudinally split, the split 

 portions curved outwards ; spores hyaline or slightly tinged 

 with colour. 



ScJdzophyllum, Fries, Obs., i. p. 103 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 359. 



The species are very dry, sessile, laterally attached, and 

 very variable in form. Known at once by the split margin 

 of the gills. Growing on wood. Eare in temperate regions, 

 but abundant in the tropics. 



Schizophyllum commune. Fr. (figs. 17, 18, p. 301.) 



Pileus ^-H in. across, more or less fan-shaped, somewhat 

 narrowed behind to a point of attachment, horizontal, very 

 thin and dry, at first covered with white down, then strigose, 

 entire or more or less deeply lobed at the margin; gills 

 narrow, radiating, grey then pale purplish-brown, margin 

 split ; spores subglobose, with a slight purple tinge, 6 x 6 /x. 



Schizophyllum commune, Pries, Syst. Myc, i. p. 303 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 360; Cke., lUustr., pi. 1114b. 



On rotten trunks, &c. 



Eecognised by the very thin, arid substance, and the split 

 margin of the gills. The only known European species, and 

 local everywhere, but is one of the commonest of fungi in 

 tropical and subtropical regions. Very variable as to mode 

 and extent of marginal indentation. 



Pileus very thin, composed of little else than a mass of 

 woolly filaments, sessile, or passing into a very short lateral 

 stipes, nearly plane, more or less circular, subentire or lobed, 

 often growing in an imbricated manner, and rarely exceed- 

 ing an inch and a half in breadth. The surface is finely 



ielmatiaea; small specimen, nat. size; — Fig. 11, section of same; nat. 

 size ; — Fig. 12, Pleurotus gadinoides ; nat. size ; — Fig. 13, section of 

 same, X 2; — Fig. 14, Clitoeybe ericetorum; half nat. size; — Fig. 15, 

 section of same ; half nat. size ; — Fig. 16, Xerotus degener ; nat. size ; — 

 IFig. 17, SoMzophyllum commune; nat. size; — Fig. 18, section of gills of 

 same, showing the split margin; — Fig. 19, Trogia crispa; small specimen, 

 nat. size. 



