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pileoli, which have arisen by divisions of the primary pileus. 

 These are the largest and most showy of all Fungi. 



I. Carnosi. Pileus fleshy, firm, floccose-fibrous, azonate ; au- 

 tumnal. 



1 6. P. anax, Berk. Very much branched, fibrous, fleshy, a 

 little tough ; pileoli very numerous, recurved and imbricate, fibrous- 

 tomentose, dusky gray ; stipes thick and concrescent, white. Pores 

 large, unequal, angular, white. Spores white, subelliptic, .007 — 

 .008 mm. long. 



At the base of oak trees and stumps in autumn ; common. It 

 branches out from a thick, single stem at the base, and forms a 

 large head of branches and pileoli 10 to 20 inches in diameter; the 

 branches terminate in numerous leafy pileoli of various forms and 

 sizes, imbricating, confluent and recurved; the flesh is white, like 

 the pores. The species does not appear to differ from P. frondosus 

 Fr., except in the large, irregular pores; both are probably forms 

 of the ancient Fungus intybaceus. 



II. Lenti. Pileus, fleshy-tough, then coriaceous, more or less 

 zonate, fibrous within ; autumnal. 



17. P. giganteus, Pers. Imbricato-multiplex, fleshy-tough, then 

 subcoriaceous. Pileoli dimidiate, very broad, flaccid, subzonate, 

 rivulose, bright brown, depressed behind. Stipes from a common 

 tuber, connate, ramose. Pores minute, subrotund, pallid, at length 

 lacerate. 



On the ground about the base of old stumps; not rare. It forms 

 large tufts, one to two feet or more in breadth, branched in an im- 

 bricated manner; pileoli various in form, the surface granulated 

 with minute brown flocci, the disk depressed, at length black ; 

 pores dirty brown when bruised. 



18. P. Berkeleyi, Fr. Imbricato-multiplex, fleshy-tough, becom- 

 ing hard and corky. Pileoli very large, subzonate, finally tomen- 

 tose, alutaceous. Stipes short or none, arising from a long and 

 thick common base. Pores rather large, irregular, angular, pale 

 alutaceous. 



Growing out of the ground usually near trees or stumps; not un- 

 common. The pileoli are sometimes nearly a foot in breadth and 

 few in number, or they are smaller and more numerous. A speci- 



