Part 63

ECCILIA, Fr.

=Parkensis=, Fr. P. 1.5-2 cm. exp. deeply umbil. glabrous, fuscous, striate to middle; g. crowded; s. 2 cm. colour of p. glabrous; sp. rough, 8-10.

=carneogrisea=, B. and Br. P. 2-3 cm. convex, umbil. finely striate, greyish pink, edge darker, micaceous; g. subdecur. edge irreg. darker; s. 2-4 cm. colour of p. white down at base; sp. rough, 7 x 5.

=griseorubella=, Lasch. P. 2-3 cm. deeply umbil. then plane, striate, hygr. umber then hoary; g. slightly decur.; s. 3-4 cm. glabrous, paler than p.; sp. rough, 9-10.

var. minor, Sacc. P. convex then umbil. fuscous violet; g. lilac; s. violet; sp. rough, 9 x 7.

=atrides=, Lasch. P. plane, deeply umbil. striate, black or brown, black virgate, then pale; g. pallid, edge with black points; s. pallid with black points above; sp. ----.

Fries thinks this may be an abnormal form of Lept. serrulata.

=nigrella=, Pers. Tufted, small. P. smooth, umbil. becoming blackish, not virgate; g. flesh colour then grey, edge same colour; s. short, glaucous, not dotted black; sp. ----.

United by Fries with E. atrides, but considered distinct by Berk. and Broome.

=atropuncta=, Pers. P. 1-2 cm. soft, hemispherical, pale grey; g. decur. arcuate, rosy-grey; s. 2-4 cm. rather tough, pallid, shining, with black dot-like squamules; sp. rough, 5-6.

=rhodocylix=, Lasch. P. 1-1.5 cm. umbil.-infundib. remotely striate when moist, somewhat fuscous, flocculose and grey when dry; g. very distant, broad; s. 2-3 cm. glabrous, grey; sp. rough, 10.

=flosculus=, W. G. Sm. P. 1.5-2 cm. deeply umbil. with crystalline particles, irreg. black brown, whitish with age; g. decur. rather wavy; s. 2 cm. reddish; sp. rough.

Probably introduced.

=acus=, W. G. Sm. P. 1-1.5 cm. deeply umbil. densely pruinose, white, edge striate and incurved; g. thick, distant; s. 2-3 cm. smooth, whitish; sp. rough.

Probably introduced.

CLAUDOPUS, W. G. Sm.

=variabilis=, Pers. P. 1-1.5 cm. resupinate, then reflexed, tomentose, white, attached by a very short incurved downy stem which disappears when the pileus turns over; g. radiating from an excentric point, distant, white then pink; sp. 3 x 2.

var. sphaerosporus, Pat. P. white, tomentose; g. paler than type; sp. globose, echinulate, tinged red.

=depluens=, Batsch. P. 1-1.5 cm. more or less convex, edge incurved, resupinate then reflexed, white or tinged reddish, usually with a very short downy s.; g. broad, ventricose, grey then tinged rufescent; sp. glob. rough, 5-6. (9-11 x 6-8 Sacc.)

Differs from C. variabilis in globose, warted s.

=byssisedus=, Pers. P. 1-2 cm. resupinate then horizontal, reniform, plane, downy, grey then pale; g. adnato-decur. greyish-white, reddish with the spores; s. incurved, downy, base surrounded with white fibrils; sp. glob. rough, 6-7.

Differs from Pleurotus applicatus by presence of s. and pink sp.

Differs from C. variabilis in denticulate edge of gills and sp.

Allied to C. byssisedus but larger.

OCHROSPORAE.

A. Gills separating spontaneously, or very easily from flesh of pileus.

=Paxillus=. Margin of pileus persistently involute; gills decurrent or adnato-decurrent.

B. Gills not separating spontaneously, nor easily from flesh of pileus.