Part 55

Habit and colour of Poly. versicolor.

Habit of Dedaelea quercina but thinner.

var. crocata, Sacc. P. strigosely velvety, sulcate, brown; g. yellow, edge unequal, paler, trama bright saffron.

** Growing on Gymnosperms.

=sepiaria=, Fr. P. 3-9 cm. long, hard, zoned, bay, strigose, rough; g. branched, anastomosing, yellowish; sp. 5 x 4.

=abietina=, Fr. P. 3-12 cm. effuso-reflexed, umber-tomentose then nearly glabrous, hoary; g. decur. simple, unequal, with white meal; sp. 7-8 x 4.

var. populina, Schulz. P. narrowed into stem-like base, tomentose, greyish or ochre; g. sometimes greyish, edge subserrulate.

var. crassior, Schulz. P. blackish grey and scabrid behind, rest hispid-tomentose; sp. 4 x 1.

=Reichardtii=, Schulz. Subimbricated. P. semiorbicular, adnate, base brownish, ochre or whitish towards edge, grey when old, imperfectly zoned; g. tan, at first white mealy, some forked.

var. resupinata, Fr. Resupinate, porose.

TROGIA, Fr.

=crispa=, Fr. P. 1-2 cm. shallowly cup-shaped, reflexed, lobed, downy, yellowish brown, edge whitish; g. fold-like, dichotomous, crisped, greyish-white; sp. subgl. 5-6.

In the only European sp. the edge of gills not channelled.

SCHIZOPHYLLUM, Fr.

=commune=, Fr. P. thin, more or less fan-shaped or reniform, often much lobed, narrowed behind to a point of attachment, whitish, downy then strigose; g. radiating, narrow, brownish, edge split; sp. subgl. 5-6.

var. multifidum, Mass. (= S. multifidum, Fr.) P. deeply incised, segments narrow.

CHLOROSPORAE.

=Chlorospora=. Gills free; veil appendiculate; volva and ring absent.

CHLOROSPORA.

=Eyrei=, Mass. (= Schulzeria Eyrei, Mass.) P. 2-4 cm. campan. then exp. and umb. even, glabrous, pale tan, edge appendiculate; g. free, clear pale green then deep bluish-green; s. 4-5 cm. equal, slightly wavy, pallid; sp. green, 4-5 x 3.

The only known European representative of the Chlorosporae.

RHODOSPORAE.

A. Gills free.

=Volvaria=. Volva present; ring absent.

=Annularia=. Volva absent; ring present, often falling away.

=Pluteus=. Volva and ring both absent.

B. Gills adnexed, rarely adnate.

=Entoloma=. Gills sinuate behind; edge of pileus incurved when young; stem fibrous or fleshy.