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white edges: spores oblong-ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, 73.5 u: stipe lateral, dilated upward, 
often canaliculate, compressed, concolorous, dealbate, 6 mm. or more long. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Waynesville, Ohio. i 
Hasrrat: On dead branches and trunks of deciduous trees. 
Distripution: New York, Ohio, Missouri, North Carolina, and Alabama. 
8. Panellus haematopus (Berk.) Murrill. 
Lentinus haematopus Berk. Grevillea 1:33, 1872. 
Lentinus anisatus P. Henn. Verh. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brand. 39: ve. 1898. 
Pileus thin, plane, umbilicate or centrally depressed, about 32.5 cm.; surface hygro- 
phanous, glabrous, ochraceous with a luteous tint, margin lobed: context having a very fragrant 
odor; lamellae plane or slightly ventricose, inserted, minutely serrate at times, anastomosing 
at the base, not crowded, white to cream-colored: spores ellipsoid, hyaline, 1—-2-guttulate, 
6-7 X3-4 mu: stipe short or obsolete, firm, eccentric, glabrous, blood-red and almost laccate at 
the base, 4-6 mm. long, about 4 mm. thick. 
TYPE Locality: North America. : 
Hasitat: Dead branches and trunks of maple, willow, and certain other deciduous trees. 
DistriBuTion: New England to North Carolina and west to Michigan; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATION: Boud. Ic. Myc. ol. &12. 
Exsiccati: Sydow, Myc. Mar. 4702. 
9. Panellus ursinus (Fries) Murrill. 
Agaricus ursinus Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 185. 1821. 
Lentinus ursinus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 395. 1838. 
Pileus fleshy to fleshy-tough, dimidiate or conchate to semiorbicular, often imbricate, 
5-10 cm. broad; surface even on the margin, at first whitish and glabrous, then reddish-brown 
and hairy or tomentose toward the base; context whitish, having an acrid taste and rather 
strong odor; lamellae broad, lacerate or dentate on the edges, white to dull-rosy-avellaneous: 
spores minute, globose, uninucleate, smooth, hyaline, 3~—4 u. 
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TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden. 
HasirarT: On decaying wood. 
DISTRIBUTION: Eastern North America; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATION: Bres. Fungi Trid. pi. 66. 
Exsiccati: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 1923. 
10. Panellus vulpinus (Sow.) Murrill. 
Agaricus vulpinus Sow. Engl. Fungi pl. 361. 1802. 
Lentinus vulpinus Fries, Syn. Gen. Lent. 13. 1836. 
Pileus soft-fleshy, sessile, reniform-conchate, imbricate-multiplex, 5-10 cm. broad; surface 
corrugate, longitudinally costate, floccose-scrupose, alutaceous, margin incurved, entire, dis- 
colored with age: context fleshy to somewhat tough, white; lamellae crowded, broad, dentate- 
lacerate, white: spores subglobose, smooth, hyaline, 3~4 y. 
Type Locatity: Islington, England. 
Hastrat: Stumps and logs of elm and certain other trees. 
DISTRIBUTION: Eastern United States. 
Intustrations: Fries, Ic. Hymen. pl. 176, f. 1; Sow. Engl. Fungi pl. 361. 
DovustTFul, SPECIES 
Lentinus castoreus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 395. 1838. Erroneously reported from Cuba. 
Lentinus pilosus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 395. 1838. (Agaricus (Pleurotus) pilosus Fries, 
Linnaea 5:508. 1830.) Described from Beyrich’s collections in Brazil. No authentic material 
has been found, either from Brazil or Mexico. 
Lentinus (Resupinatus) proboscideus Fries, Nova Acta Soc, Sci. Upsal. III. 1: 38, 1851. 
Collected by Oersted in Costa Rica and said by Fries to be related to L. castoreus. 
Lentinus Verae-Crucis Berk.; Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linu. Soc. 10: 303. 1868. Described 
from Vera Cruz, Mexico, as flabelliform, white, farinaceous-tomentose, 2.5-4 cm. broad; 
lamellae distant, entire, broad; stipe short, farinaceous. 
Panus Robinsonii Mont. Syll. Crypt. 149. 1856. The type specimens, collected near 
