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HYMENOMYCETES 
CHLOROSPOR^I 
Spores clear green or bluish-green. 
CHLOROSPORA 
(Gr. chloros, greenish-yellow ; spovos , a seed—from the 
greenish spores) 
C. Eyrei (after the Rev. W. L. W. Eyre, who first ob¬ 
served it). Plate XLIII. 2. 
P. i|- in., broadly umbonate, smooth, brownish, margin 
incurved, apex minutely granular. G. free, narrowed 
behind, crowded, then distant, pale green at first, deep 
bluish-green at maturity. Spore mass deep bluish-green. 
Under spruces and beeches in ant., gregarious. Rare. 
Easily recognised by the bluish-green gills. The only 
known European representative of the genus. 
LEUCOSPORiE 
Spores white. In the majority of the species the gills are 
white at maturity ; the genera Russula and Lactarius con¬ 
tain some species with cream-colour, or ochraceous, gills and 
spores. 
SCHIZOPHYLLUM 
(Gr. schizo , to split; phullon , a leaf—from the split edge 
of the gills) 
S. commune ( communis , common—it being common in 
certain countries). Plate XLV. 6. 
P. J-iJ in., fan-shaped, thin, dry, horizontally attached to 
the matrix, often growing in an imbricate manner, margin 
entire or lobed, cottony, whitish, indistinctly zoned. 
G. narrow, radiating, grey, then purplish brown, more or 
