Gills fold-like, edge longitudinally channelled (in the single European species only crisped). In other respects agreeing with Xerotus. Soft, flaccid, but arid and persistent, texture fibrillose. Fries.
Reviving when wet. Spores white. Stevenson.
Spores elongated or cylindrical.
American representative, Trogia crispa, var. variegata.
Pileus and gills variegated with bluish or greenish-blue stains. Sandlake. September. Peck, 38th Rep. N.Y. State Bot.
Not edible.
SCHIZOPHYL´LUM Fr.
Gr—to split; Gr—a leaf.
