(L,
lateral, obovate, and waved, opaque, contracted and tomentoso-
villous behind ; gills crowded, determinate, broad, clay-brown.
Ou old stumps. King’s Cliffe. P i l e u s brownish-ochraceous.
Nearly allied to the next, but not so soft and watery.
303. A. ( C r e p i d o t n s ) m o l l i s , Rc^«/.; pileus subgelatinons,
flaccid, even, smooth, turning pale; stem obsolete; gills
crowded, linear, dirty-white, t h e n watery-cinnamon. (Plate 9,
fig. 6 .)—Huss. i. t. 74.
On old stumps. Common. Pileus 14-3 inches across,
pale.
304. A. (Crepidotns) hausteUaris, Fr.; pileus slightly fleshy,
reniform, even, slightly villous; stem lateral, attenuated upwards,
villous, white; gills rounded, nearly free, browmshcinnamon.—
Batsch, f . 1 2 1 .
On dead trunks. Bare. Not observed since the time of
Withering.
305. A. ( C r e p i d o t n s ) E n b i , B . ; pileus fleshy, clothed with
very minute crystalline meal; stem short, incurved, solid, strigose
at the base; gills adnato-decurrent, greyish, then umber,
slightly ventricose. (Plate 9, fig. 7.)
On dead bramble, etc. Bare. Pileus half an inch across,
yellowish or livid-grey. Spores umber.
306. A. (Crepidotns) obimonophilus, B. and Br.; white;
pileus convex, rather thick, villous; stem very short or obsolete;
gills distant, attenuated behind.
On small dead branches of Pyrus torminalis. Benefield,
Northamptonshire, Spores pale yellow-brown. Pileus a
quarter of an inch across. Margin inflexed.
307. A. (Crepidotns) variabilis, P.; pileus submembranaceous,
resupinate, then reflexed, clothed wixh white down;
gills rather close, white, then rusty-red, at length pale-cinnamon.
(Plate 10, fig. \ . )—Huss. i. t. 50,
On sticks, dead furze, etc. Extremely common. Easily
known by its reddish gills, which resemble in colour those of
Hyporhodii.
308. A. (Crepidotns) depluens, Batsch ; pileus submembranaceous,
resupinate, then reflexed, somewhat cónchate,
clothed with white down behind; gills broad, crowded, grey,
then reddish.—Batsch, f . 1 2 2 .
On the ground, in stoves, etc. Not common. M’hitish
when dry.
309. A. (Crepidotns) byssisedns, P . ; pileus submembranaceous,
resupinate, then reflexed, nearly plane, pruinose
with greyish down; stem incurved; gills broad, dirty-white,
inclining to cinereous.—Pers. Ic. and Desc. t. 14./. 4 .
On the ground. Rare. Spores irregular, as in many of
smaller Hyporhodii.
310. A. (Crepidotns) Pezizoides, Nee«; pileus sessile, thin,
cup-shaped, then reflexed, mealy, subtomentose ; gills meeting
m the centre, rather distant, olive-brown, then tawny.
On rotten branches. Rare. Pound only in Warwickshire,
by Mr. Bufford.
Series 4. P b a te llte .—Spores brownish-purple or brown.
SubgenuB 2 2 . P s a l l io t a .— Veil fixed to the stem,
forming a ring.
311. A. (Pratella) campestris, L . ; pileus fleshy, convexo-
plane, dry, flocculose or squamulose; stem stuffed, even,
white; ring placed about the middle of the stem, somewhat
torn; gills free, approximate, ventricose, subdeliquesoent,
flesh-coloured, then brown. (Plate 10, fig. 2.)—Huss. i. t. 90.
In rich pastures. Common in most parts of the world, and
extremely variable. Some of the forms are as follows : —
m