376 FUNGUS-FLOEA, 



Eesembling Panus stypiicus in habit and size, bnt dis- 

 tinguished by its white colour and glabrous pileus. 



Firm, tasteless, white or rufescent, in the young stater", 

 spathulate, and the stem quite distinct, the pileus gradually^; 

 dilates, the stem becomes obsolete, and the pileus reniform^ 

 the outer margins meeting, and the one overlapping the 

 other ; the upper stratum gelatinous. (Berk.) 



Pleurotus gadinoides. Smith, (figs. 12, 13, p. 301.) 



Pileus about ^ in. across, rather fleshy tender, horizontal, 

 semi-circular or shell-shaped, white, hygrophanous, covered 

 with delicate adpressed, floccose down, with no gelatinous 

 upper stratu.m ; stem minute, lateral, or absent; gills some- 

 what crowded, and slightly branched; white; spores ellip- 

 tical, 7 X 3 /A. 



Agaricus [Pleurotus) gadinoides, W. G. Smith, Journ. Bot., 

 1873, t. 129, f. 1-4; Cke., Hdbk., p. 107; Cke., lUustr., 

 pi. 276a. 



On tree-fern stem in hot-horse. 



Probably an introduced species. 



Pleurotus limpidus. Fr. 



Pileus ^-1 in. across, flesh thin, obovate or reniform, 

 horizontal, even, glabrous, hygrophanous, white when moist, 

 shining white when dvy, not furnished with a viscid pellicle, 

 margin veiy thin, shortly inflexed; gills thin, crowded, 

 white; true stem alistnt, but the pileus narrowed 1 ehiud 

 into a very shoit, stem-like base, on which the gills are 

 decurrent. 



Agaricus (Pleurotus) limpidus, Fries, Epicr., p. 135; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 107 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 276b. 



On rotten trunks of beech, &c. 



With the habit and substance of P. mitis, but entirely 

 shining white, and subsessile. (Fries.) 



Pleurotus reniformis. Fr. 



Pileus -|— J in. across, rather fleshy, horizontal, reniform, 

 grey, rather notched behind, and furnished with a very 

 i^hoit, rudimentary, downy stem; gills diverging from the 

 stem-like base, thin, narrow, crowded, grey. 



Agaricus (Pleurotus') reniformis. Fries, Vet. Akad. Farh., 

 1873, p. 5; Cke., Hdbk., p. 108 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 276a 



