. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. DERMINI. 301 gins, becoming pale when dry, fleshy-soft, obovate, sometimes re- Oepidotus. pand, rather plane, even, smooth ; dimidiate, laterally somewhat sessile, or extended behind with a short, stem-like, tomentoso-villoits base and horizontal. Gills determinate, not decurrent at the base, broad, crowded, clay-fuscous. Very much allied to A, mollis, but differing in the more fleshy, somewhat cuneiform pile- us, in the colour of all its parts being darker, and especially in the broad gills. On old stumps, oak, &c. A


. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. DERMINI. 301 gins, becoming pale when dry, fleshy-soft, obovate, sometimes re- Oepidotus. pand, rather plane, even, smooth ; dimidiate, laterally somewhat sessile, or extended behind with a short, stem-like, tomentoso-villoits base and horizontal. Gills determinate, not decurrent at the base, broad, crowded, clay-fuscous. Very much allied to A, mollis, but differing in the more fleshy, somewhat cuneiform pile- us, in the colour of all its parts being darker, and especially in the broad gills. On old stumps, oak, &c. Rare. Name—alveus, a trough. Shaped like a little trough. Lasch n. 582. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 398. Hym. Eur. p. 275. Berk. Out. p. 163. C. Hbk. n. 352. Illust. PL 499 a. S. Mycol. Scot. n. > XXIX. Agaricus \Crepidotus) inollis. One-half natural size. 675. A. mollis Schasff.—Pileus pallid then becoming hoary, at length with rufous spots from the shed spores, gelatinous-fleshy ^ convexo-plane, obovate or reniform, undulated and lobed when larger, flaccid, even, smooth, dimidiate, somewhat sessile (but vary- ing extended behind into a short, 12 mm. (}4 in.), strigose stem), often imbricated; flesh very soft, more or less thick, watery whitish. Gills commonly decurrent to the base, linear, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) broad, crowded, whitish-grey then watery cinnamon. On sticks, stumps, sawdust, &c. Common. July-Nov. Pileus cent. (1-3 in.) broad. Spores 9X5mk. Name— mollis, soft. Schaff. t. 213. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 399. Hym. Eur. p. 275. Berk. Out. p. 164. /. 6. C. Hbk. n. 353. Illust. PL 498. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 359. Sow. t. 98. Hussey i. t. 74. Price/. 25. Brigant. t. 41. / 6-8. •Letell. t. 688. 676. A. applanatus Pers.—Pileus watery cinnamon when moist, whitish when dry, very hygrophanous, slightly and watery fleshy, soft, \s\\\. fragile, wholly plane and horizontal, extended be- hind in a straight line into a very short white tomentose stem, o


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