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THE LARGER FUNGI 
incut' or less lobed irregularly and a little i n rolled, dark-brown (Cinnamon Brown, 
XV., Warm Sepia, XXIX.), becoming pallid. Gills decurrent on to the lateral 
almost obsolete stem, narrow, many short ones interposed, sometimes anastomosing 
on the stem, cream-coloured to pallid brownish. Stem lateral, short and stont, 
nii to lin. x lin. (2,.i x 2.5 cm.), or slender, pallid to dark-brown, flesh with a 
thick glutinous outer layer succeeded by a narrow pallid layer, then by a thicker 
pale waxy layer. Spores elliptical, oblique, slightly curved, white, S to 10 x 4 
to 6.5 ,it. Cystidia varying in shape, ventricose or more or less club-shaped with 
rough apices and constricted bases, thick walled, 54 to 112 x 9.3 to 18 g. Some- 
times caespitose and imbricate. On the ground at the bases of or under trees 
or stumps. South Australia — On the ground beneath Eucalyptus and Finns 
attached apparently to superficial roots, Botanic. Gardens, Adelaide; at the base 
of Eucalyptus rostral, a Sold., Burnside; National Park; Mount Lofty; Mylor; 
Encounter Bay. May, June, August. ( Figure 16.) 
[From watercolour by Miss Fiveosh. 
Figure 16. — Pleniotv.s vmidulus (Berk, et Br.) del. (No. 93). Mount Lofty. 
Reduced by 
The species is characterised by the smooth, viscid dark-brown flabelliform 
pileus laterally contracted to a short stem, the decurrent gills, the habitat and 
miseroscopically the cystidia. 
94. Pleurotus subapplicatus (Tel. (,S ubappHmtus, near to the species P. 
applieatus Batsc-h,, Berk.). — Pileus i to jin. (3.5 to 16 mm.), convex, becoming 
depressed towards the attachment, at first inverted saucer-shaped, finally rather 
fan-shaped, a little repaint, sometimes almost lobed, tomentose, strigose near the 
attachment when large, pallid grey or greyish-brown. Gills moderately close, 
radiating from a lateral to excentric point of attachment, many short ones, grey 
with a fawny tint. No definite stem. Flexible, the flesh of the pileus with an 
upper dark gelatinous layer. Shed spores spherical, 5 to 7, 5.5 x 3.5 g. South 
Australia — On an upright piece of rotting wood in a glass-house, Blackwood; on 
dead part of pepper-tree (ScMnm Moils IT.), Fullartoif (Adelaide ) ; Mount Lofty. 
April to July. 
A small grey gregarious species growing oil wood, saucer-shaped to fail-shaped, 
the grey gills radiating from the point of attachment. 
Pleurotus subapplicatus Clel. Laschiu form. — Pilous din. (6 mm.) laterally, 
convex, smooth to somewhat rugulose, subgelatinous, upper surface nearly black 
(the colour of burnt wood). Gills radiating from a nearly lateral point, many 
short, moderately close, dark grey, the gills replaced in most of the plants by 
several distant thick-edged plates, from which cross branches pass from one to 
another with anastomoses so that irregular pores result. Flesh subgelatinous. 
Spores sake rical, 6 g. South Australia — On fallen trunk, National Park) August. 
