li;
Gregarious. Pileus 2 lines or more broad and high, altogether stemless, cnp-
shaped, hanging down, cinereous, very minutely strigose, especially at the
base; margin paler, sprinkled with a few meal-like scales. Upper stratum
gelatinous, cinereous, beneath which the flesh is white and very thin. Gills
pure white,rather distant, the alternate ones shorter, narrow, linear.—M. J .B .
1 3 2 . A g a r icu s (P leu ro tu s) H ohson i. Berk. “ Hobson’s Pleurotus.”
Pileus membranaceous, reniform, or dimidiate, stemless, pale-
grey, minutely downy ; gills rather distant, pallid.—Berk. Outl.
2).139.
On larch stumps. Sept. Apethorpe.
Pileus 1-4 Unes across ; margin involute.
1 3 3 . A g a r icu s (P leu ro tu s) a p p lic a tu s . Batsek. “ Little grey
Pleurotus.”
Dark cinereous ; pileus submembranaceous, rather firm, resupinate,
then reflexed, somewhat striate, sub-pruinose, villous at
the base; gills loose, paler.—Dr. Dpzcr.y). 137. B a ts c h .f.125.
Sow. t. 301. Eng. F I .Y .p .75. Bull. t. 581, f . 2. Pers. M .E .i .t.
28, f 8.
On dead fallen branches. Common. [S. Carolina.]
Pileus about J in. across, when young cup-shaped, resupinate, slightly
carnose, striate when moist, more or less villous ; gills broad, distant, radiating,
grey, the margin whitish, stem none.—M .J .B . (jig. 37, nat. size.)
1 3 4 . A g a r icu s (P leu ro tu s) s tr ia tu lu s . Fr. “ Striate Pleurotus.”
Pale cinereous. Pilens very delicate, striate, flaccid, smooth ;
gills few, distant.—Fr. E picr.p . 137. Eng. F I. Y . p . 75.
On firwood, hazel twigs, &c. Scotland. [S. Carolina.]
Scattered or gregarious, persistent. Pileus 3-4 lines broad, convex, wrinkled
when dry ; gills few, unequal, distant, sometimes dirty-white, sometimes
the whole plant is brown.—Fries.
1 3 5 . A g a r icu s (P leu ro tu s) h y p n o p h ilu s. P. “ Moss Pleurotus.”
Eesupinate, flat, white ; pileus sub-reniform, nearly smooth ;
gills simple.—Pers. M .E . iii. t. 24, f . 5 a. Berk. Outl.p. 139. Eng.
F l.Y .p .7 5 .
On the larger mosses and fallen leaves. Appin.
Exactly the habit of A. vanabilis, hut the spores are white, and in consequence
the gills do not change colour.
1 3 6 . A g a r icu s (P leu ro tu s) c h io n e u s . P . “ Snowy Pleurotus.”
Snow-white, snb-resupinate, m inute; pileus very thin, villous ;
gills I'ather broad ; stem very short, villous, at length obsolete.—
Pers. M .E . iii. t. 26, f . 10-11. Berk. Outl.p. 139. Eng. F I. Y . p . 75.
On wood or dung. Eare. Lytchett, Dorset.
Pileus 2 lines broad, extremely delicate and fragile, clothed with white
down, fixed by a few downy threads, the margin involute ; gills radiating,
distant, with sometimes a single smaller one in the interstices.—AI. J .B .
Sub-Gen. 7. C o l ly b i a , F r. Epicr. p. 81.
Pileus at first convex, with an involute ma rgin; stem with a
cartilaginous bark, of a different substance from the hymenophore,
but confluent with i t ; gills adnate or slightly attached
(not decurrent).
H a b . Most of the species are epiphytal.— (P L II.,fig . 7.)
Usually small and tough, lasting far into the winter ; few only are known
tobeedible, as A.fusipes, Bidl. A^escvXentns^Wulf^hQ. MarobsrriiusÍBQ\os,QÍy
allied to Collybia.
Sect. 1 . Stricepedes—stem sulcate, fibrillose, or striate.
137. A g a r icu s (Collybia) r a d ica tu s. Belli. “ Rooting Collybia.”
Pileus fleshy, thin, convex, then plane, wrinkled, glutinous;
stem stuffed, tall, attenuated upwards, rooting, rigid, smooth;
gills adnexed, distant, white.—Dr. Epicr.p. 81. Sow. t.48. Gard.
Ghron. 1860, p. 265. Grev .t.217. Krombh. t. 62, f . 6- 10. Paul.t.
97, / . 3-4. Berk. Outl. t. 5, / . 4. Eng. FL v. p. 44. Huss. i. 1.15.
Price,/. 98. Vent. t. 56, f . 1 -2.
On old stumps, &c. Very common. [United States.]
Pileus 3-4 iu. across, flat, more or less umbonate, radiato-rugose, smooth,
at first slimy, carnose, tough and elastic, delicate, fusco-oohraceous, oliva-
ceoas, <Eo,, often irregular; gills white, thick, distant, veutricose, adnate,
wffh or without a tooth, sometimes almost decurrent; stem 4-8 in. high,
about f in, thick, attenuated upwards, twisted, not smooth, but rather fur-
furaceous, sometimes striate above with raised lines, paler than the pileus,
juioy, brittle, splitting longitudinally, sometimes tough, at length hollow,
rufescent within, penetrating very deeply into the ground by a fusiform root.
— M.J.B. Spores-(10041 X '00068 in.
13S. Ag a r icu s (Collybia) lo u g ip e s.
Collybia.”
Bull. “ Long-stemmed
Pileus fleshy, thin, conical, then expanded, umbonate, dry,
slightly velvety; stem stuffed, tall, attenuated upwards, villose,
at length sulcate; root long, fusiform ; gills rounded behind,
rather distant, white.— Bull. t. 232. Fr. Epicr. p. 81. Huss. i. t.
80. Batt. t. 20, / . A. Corda. Sturm, t. 52. Ag.pudens, Ann. N.H.
no. 64.
On old stumps, &c.
? “i™*® “ ''®:''i^ as in A . velutipes, and the pileus, especially its margin,
more or less so, and by no means glutinous.