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6. Daedalea amanitoides Beauv. Fl. Oware 1: 44. Af. 25. 1805. 
Daedalea elegans Spreng. Sv. Vet. Acad. Handl. 1820: 51. 1820.—Fries, Syst. Mye. 1. 335. 1821; 
Elench. Fung. 69. 1828. 
Daedalea Palisoti Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 335. 1821. 
Daedalea levis Hook.; Kunth, Syn. Pl. 1: (9). 1822. (Type from Surinam.) 
Daedalea repanda Pers.; Gaud. Voy. Freyc. Bot. 168. 1826. (Type from the Island of Rawak.)— 
Mont. Pl. Cell. Cuba 382. p/. 14, f. 4. 1842. ' : 
Daedalea deplanata Fries, Linnaea 5: 513. 1830. (Type from Brazil.) 
Daedalea applanata Klotzsch, Linnaea 8: 481. 1833. (Type from Mauritius.) 
Lenziles applanata Fries, Epicr. Myc. 404. 1838. 
Lenzites Palisoti Fries, Epicr. Myc. 404. 1838. 
Lenzites repanda Fries, Epicr. Myc. 404. 1838. 
Lenzites deplanata Fries, Epicr. Myc. 492. 1838. 
Trametes elegans Fries, Epicr. Myc. 492. 1838. (Type from Guadeloupe.) 
Lenziles platypoda Lév. Crypt. Bonite 184. 1846. (Type from Manila.) 
Trametes centralis Fries, Nov. Symb. 95. 1851. (Type from the West Indies.) 
Pileus very thin, very large, flexible, corky-woody, subsessile, usually attached by an 
orbicular peltate base, explanate, umbilicate, circular to fan-shaped, variable, 8-20 
15-30 X 0.2-0.5 cm.; surface varying from entirely azonate to zonate, and from milk-white 
to partially avellaneous, glabrous, slightly sulcate, sometimes blackening behind with age ; 
margin thin, white, undulate to lobed: context milk-white, floccose, homogeneous, 2-4 
mm. thick; tubes very variable in shape, circular to labyrinthiform and lamelloid, narrow, 
hardly exceeding 0.5 mm. in breadth, 2-3 mm. deep, white within, edges white to dis- 
colored, thin, uneven, dentate with age: spores oblong, smooth, hyaline, 5-8 2-34; 
hyphae, 3-44. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Wari, Africa. 
HasitatT: Dead deciduous wood. 
DISTRIBUTION : Tropical America ; also in old-world tropics. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Beauv. Fl. Oware p/, 25, Afzel. Fung. Guin. gl. 11, f. 23. 
ExsiccaTr: Roum. Fungi Gall. 3205. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES 
Daedalea violacea Lévy. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 5: 142. 1846. Described from Cuba, and 
said by the author to be violet-colored on both surface and hymenium. Authentic speci- 
.mens have not been found. 
76. LENZITES Fries, Gen. Hymen. 10. 1836. 
Hymenophore small, annual, epixylous, sessile, conchate; surface anoderm, usually 
zonate and tomentose: context white, coriaceous, flexible ; hymenium lamellate, the radiat- 
ing gill-like dissepiments connected transversely at times, especially in youth: spores 
smooth, hyaline. 
Type species, Daedalea betulina (1,.) Fries. 
Surface of the pileus conspicuously tomentose. 
Furrows 1-2 mm. broad, 3-10 mm. deep, soon becoming entirely lamellate ; 
found in temperate regions. 1. L. betulina. 
Furrows0.5-1 mm. broad, 2-3 mm. deep, anastomosing in front and behind, 
lamellae often porose; found in Mexico. 2. L. betuliniformis, 
Surface of the pileus finely pubescent ; found in Cuba. 3. L, cubensis, 
Surface of the pileus glabrous ; found in Jamaica. 4. L. Earlei. 
1. Lenzites betulina (L.) Fries, Epicr. Myc. 405. 1838. 
Agaricus betulifus L. Sp. Pl. 1176. 1753. 
Daedatea betulina Rebent. Prodr. Fl. Neom. 371. 1804.— Fries, Obs. 1: 104. 1815. 
Daedalea betulina velutina Berk. Ann. Nat. Hist. 3: 381. 1839. 
Lenzites flaccida Fries, Epicr. Myc. 406. 1838. 
Lenzites variegata Fries, Epicr. Myc. 406. 1838. 
Lenzites Berkeleyi Lév. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 5: 122. 1846. (Type from New York.) 
Te ee Berk. & Curt. Jour. Bot. & Kew Misc. 1: 101. 1849. (‘type from North 
Carolina.) 
Pileus thin, coriaceous, sessile, dimidiate to flabelliform, imbricate, conchate, 3-4 
4-7 X 0.3-1 cm.; surface conspicuously tomentose, velvety, multizonate, somewhat uneven, 
often radiate-rugose to plicate, avellaneous with latericeous zones, becoming olivaceous with 
