margin acute, inflexed; pores short, round, equal, quite
entire.
On trunks. Scotland, A. Jerdon. Bath, C. E. B. Thin,
about an inch across.
33. P. fragilis, F r .; dirty-white, spotted with brown when
touched; pileus fleshy, fibrous, brittle, piano-depressed or ver-
siform, rough with fibres, convex below; pores thin, elougato-
flexiious, intricate.
On fir. Cornwall, Mr. Ralfs.
24. P. csesius, F r .; white, here and there tinged with blue;
pileus fleshy, soft, tough, unequal, silky; pores small, unequal,
elongato-flexuous, torn and toothed.—Sow. t. 236.
On fallen sticks, etc. Not uncommon. About an inch
across, sometimes resupinate. Spores green.
25. P. destructor, Fr.; pileus fleshy, watery, hrittle, effuso-
reflexed, wrinkled, dirty-white, tinged with brown, zoned
within; pores long, rounded, toothed and torn, dirty-white.
On larch and Scotch fir. Scotland, Mrs. Wynne. Northamptonshire,
in several localities. Sometimes almost resupinate
or effuse, with scarcely any free margin.
26. P. nidulans, F r .; pileus fleshy, hut tough, very soft,
somewhat pulvinate, villous, then nearly even, zoneless, reddish
grey, of the same colour within; pores long, middle-
sized, unequal, angular, tawny, inclining to tile-red.
Ou fallen sticks. Not common. Sherwood Forest, on
mountain ash. A resupinate form was sent from Scotland
by Dr. Bauchop.
27. P. rutilans, F r .; pileus fleshy, hut tough, thin, soft, at
first villous, then smooth, zoneless, tawny-cinnamon, turning
pale, of the same colour within; pores short, minute, thin,
equal, acute, cinnamon.—Pers. Ic. et Descr. t. 6. / . 4.
On fallen branches. Not common. Wynnstay. Denbighshire.
When fresh, has a sweet scent, like that of anise.
28. P. fumosus, Fr.; pileus fleshy, then rather corky, firm,
zoneless, silky, at length smooth, undulated, dingy, pale umber,
dilated and adnate behind; fibrous within and zoned; pores
short, round, minute, dirty-white, darker when bruised.
On stumps of trees. Very common. Smell oppressive.
29. P. adustus, Fr.; pileus fleshy, tough, firm, thin, villous,
cinereous, pallid; margin straight, at length black, effuso-
reflexed behind; pores short, minute, round, obtuse, dirty-
white and pruinose, then cinereous-brown.—Sow. t. 331.
On stumps of trees. Not uncommon. P. carpineus is a
thin, yellowish variety.
30. P. crispns, F r .; pileus fleshy, but tough, coriaceous,
rugose, cinereous, effuso-reflexed behind; margin thin, crisped,
at length black; pores rather large, unequal, at length laby-
rinthiform, silvery-cinereous.—Batsch, f . 227.
On stumps. Less common than the last. Very nearly
allied to it.
31. P. adiposus, B. and Br.; white, here and there acquiring
a foxy tinge; pileus soft, waxy, shortly reflexed, obscurely
tomentose; hymenium rather thick; pores small; edge obtuse.
On the ground. Warwickshire, Rev. A. Bloxam. Coed
Coch. Turns brownish in drying. Pores not stratose.
33. P. amorphus, F r .; pileus fleshy, but tough, thin, generally
effuso-reflexed; pores minute, unequal, golden-yellow,
at first dusted with white.—Sow. t. 433.
On the ground, amongst pine-leaves. A most beautiful, but
small species. Sowerby’s plant is not so bright in colour as
the more usual form.
33. P. hispidus, F r .; pileus compact, fleshy, but spongy,
dimidiate, pulvinate, hispid, ferruginous, fibrous within, the
fibres diverging; pores minute, rounded, inclined to sepa-
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