236
5. L. cooHeatus, F r.; annual, tougli, flaccid ; pileus fleshy,
hut tough, irregular, more or less lohed or twisted, rufous,
turning pallid, as well as the solid, firm, sulcate stem; gills
crowded, serrated, pinkish-white. (Plate 19, fig. 4.)
On trunks of trees, and on the ground. Earc, but found
occasionally in most parts of England. Stem often divided,
so as to produce many spurious pilei.
6. L. vulpinns, F r.; sessile, imbricated ; pilei fleshy, tough,
cónchate, connate behind, longitudinally rough with rigid
points, tan-coloured; margin incurved, entire; gills torn,
white.—Sow. t. 361.
On stumps of trees. Bare. On an elm-stump, Margate.
Pileus very rough. Spores white.
7. L. flabelliformis, F r .; subsessile; pilens thin, tough,
reniform, plane, smooth, fawn-coloured; margin crenato-fim-
hriate; gills broad, torn, pallid.—Bolt. t. 157.
On stumps. Bare. I have never seen this species. Per.-
haps Bolton’s plant may he only Agaricus salignus.
14. PANUS, Fr.
Pileus fleshy, hut tough, at length drying up. Gills tough.
Edge acute, entire. Hymenophorum homogeneous with the
stem.
1. P. torulosus, F r .; pileus fleshy, then tough, coriaceous,
funnel-shaped, flattened, sometimes dimidiate, even, pale-
ochre, frequently shaded with pin k ; stem short, oblique,
clothed with grey down; gills decurrent, rather distant, distinct
behind, ruddy, then tan-coloured.—Batsch, f . 33; Bolt,
t. 146.
On old stumps of various trees. Not uncommon. Very
variable in point of colour, sometimes quite as bright as in
Batsch’s figure, sometimes shaded very slightly, if at all, with
pink.
2. P. oonchatus, F r. ; pileus fleshy, hut tough, thin, unequal,
excentric and dimidiate, cinnamon, then turning pale,
at length squamulose ; stem short, unequal, pubescent at the
base; gills decurrent, forming lines on the stem, somewhat
branched, pinkish-white, then ochraceous.—Bull. t. 298, 517
0, P.
On trunks of trees. Bare. Margate, etc. Not always so
much coloured, or so much inclined to he scaly, as is intimated
by the specific character, or by Bulliard’s plate. Always,
however, easily known, by its cónchate form and tougher
substance, from similar species of the genus Agaricus. A. in-
constans. P., is merely a form of this species.
3. P. stypticus, Fr. ; pileus kidney-shaped, coriaceous,
cinnamon, turning pale; cuticle breaking np into mealy
scales ; stem short, lateral, dilated upwards ; gills determinate,
thin, crowded, connected by veins, cinnamon.—Sow.
t. 109.
On stumps, dead trees, etc. Extremely common.
15. XEROTUS, Fr.
Hymenophorum confluent wirh the stem. Gills tough or
coriaceous, dichotomous. Edge obtuse, entire.
1. X. degener, Fr.; pileus coriaceo-memhranaceous, piano-
depressed, flocculose, hygrophanous, striate when moist; stem
slender, solid, velvety; gills fold-like, branched, very distant,
pale.—Sow. t. 210.
In peat-mosses. I am not acquainted with this plant. ' .I I! 4'1I