. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. AGARICUS. Pleurotus. 4 in.) broad, fleshy, thin, unequal, silky-villous, not hygrophanous. Stem somewhat lateral, thin or obsolete, villous. Gills decurrent, very crowded, thin, white, then becoming yellow. Tough. Allied to A. lignatilis. On plane and ash. Walthamstow, £c. Name—acer, maple. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 175. B. & Br. n. 2000. C. Illust. PL 291. II.—DlMIDIATI. 377. A. petaloides Bull.—Pileus cent. (1-2 in.) long,/?/.?- cous, becoming pale, dimidiate, fleshy, but in no wise compact, rather plane, somewhat spat
. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. AGARICUS. Pleurotus. 4 in.) broad, fleshy, thin, unequal, silky-villous, not hygrophanous. Stem somewhat lateral, thin or obsolete, villous. Gills decurrent, very crowded, thin, white, then becoming yellow. Tough. Allied to A. lignatilis. On plane and ash. Walthamstow, £c. Name—acer, maple. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 175. B. & Br. n. 2000. C. Illust. PL 291. II.—DlMIDIATI. 377. A. petaloides Bull.—Pileus cent. (1-2 in.) long,/?/.?- cous, becoming pale, dimidiate, fleshy, but in no wise compact, rather plane, somewhat spathulate, con- tinuous with the stem and depressed behind, hence the villous down of the stem ascends to this point (the disc) of the pileus, otherwise smooth, even, margin at first involute, then expanded. Stem about 12 mm. (^ in.) long, some- times however very short, solid, firm, compressed, channelled when larger, more or less villous, whitish. Gills decurrent, very crowded, very narrow (scarcely beyond 2 mm. broad), linear, very unequal, white then XI. Agaricus {Pleurotus) mitis. Natural size. Section three times natural size. Taste bitter. The form on wood is some- what horizontal, gregarious, here and there imbricated. B. spathulatus Pers. Obs. i. t. i, erect, growing on the ground. The stem is channelled especially in the variety. It varies much even in colour; the forms growing on the ground, which are somewhat vertical with the margin reflexed, are especially remarkable, and smaller specimens almost pass into A. tremulus. In one most remarkable form the pileus is red : Lere in Pers. M. E. 3. t, 25. f. 6. On stumps and on the ground. Rare. Spores 8x4 mk. IV. Name—from fancied resemblance in shape to the petal of a flower. Bull. t. 226, 557. /. 2. Fr. Monogr. i. p. 248. Hym. Eur. p. 175. Berk. Out. p. 136. C. Hbk. n. 120. Illust. PL 258. a. Ventur. /. 44-/• 5. 6. 378. A. pulrnonarius Fr.—Pileus cent. (2-3 in.) broad, cinereous, con
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