PLEUEOTUS. 367 



long, about 1 in. thick, solid, firm, inorassated at the base, 

 white sometimes furfuraceous, single or in tufts, varying a 

 good deal in its texture. (Grev.) 



Pleurotus tessulatus. Bull. 



Pilous 3-4 in. across, horizontal, flesh compact, thick, 

 white, convex then plane, and in somewhat lateral forms de- 

 pressed behind, rather irregular, even, glabrous, not cracked 

 in a tessulated manner, but marked with roundish or poly- 

 gonal, paler spots, pallid-tawny ; gills sinuate behind, unci- 

 nately adnexed, thin, crowded, white or becoming tinged 

 yellow ; stem solid, compact, about 1 in. long, equal, or at- 

 tenuated at the base, very excentric, curved-ascending, even, 

 glabrous, white. 



Agaricus (Pleurotus) tessulatus,' Bull., t. 513, f. 1 ; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 102; Cke., lllustr., pi. 254. 



On trunks. 



Solitary or caespitose. Allied to P. ulmarius, but more 

 irregular in form, smaller, more compact, aud smell of new 

 meal. 



Pleurotus subpalmatus. Fr. 



Pileus 3-5 in. across, flesh thick, soft, variegated ; convex 

 then more or less flattened, irregularly circular, obtuse, rugu- 

 lose, smooth, with a gelatinous cuticle, rufescont ; stem ex- 

 centric or almost lateral, but the pileus is always marginate 

 behind, fibrillose, short, equal, flesh fibrous, soft ; gills ad- 

 nate, 3-4 lines broad, crowded, joined behind, dingy. 



Agaricus (Pleurotus') subpalmatus, Fries, Epicr., p. 131 ; 

 Cke., Hdbk., p. 103 ; Cke., lUustr., pi. 255. 



On old trunks, squared timber, &c. 



Very remarkable for having the flesh variegated as in Fis- 

 tulina hepatica. Pileus, especially when young, covered with 

 a viscid pellicle. (Fries.) 



Pleurotus craspedius. Fr. 

 Pileus 3-6 in. across, more or less excentric, sometimes 

 almost lateral, but always marginate behind ; flesh thin, 

 almost membranaceous at the expanded margin, flaccid, 

 plane, depressed behind when very excentric, brick -red, or 

 after rain tan-colour becoming pale ; also greyish, even, 

 glabrous, rather moist, but without a separable pellicle, 



