292 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLuME 9 
Lentinus Wrightii Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 300. 1868. 
Lentinus subcervinus Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 300. 1868. 
Lentinus rigidulus Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 300. 1868. 
Pocillaria vestida Earle, Inf. An. Estac. Centr. Agron. Cuba 1: 231. 1906. 
Pileus convex-umbilicate to infundibuliform or turbinate, 4-7 cm. broad; surface pale- 
fawn-colored to dark-reddish-brown, dénsely covered with stiff, squamose, fascicled, dark- 
fuscous hairs, disk becoming glabrate, margin circinate, incurved: lamellae decurrent, slightly 
forked and anastomosing behind, rather distant, narrow, denticulate, glandular, pale-fuscous 
to dark-fuscous: spores narrowly ellipsoid or subcylindric, often curved, 6-8 X3 uw: stipe central, 
firm, enlarged above and below, glabrous or nearly so, silky at the apex, paler than the pileus, 
2-4 cm. long, 3 mm. thick. 
Tyre LOCALITY: Jamaica. 
HasitaT: On exposed logs and stumps. ; F 
DistRrBution: Throughout the tropics, and in certain states bordering on the Gulf of Mexico. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Trans. Linn. Soc. 20: pl. 9; Inf. An. Estac. Centr. Agron. Cuba 1: #1. 31, f. 2. 
Exsiccatr: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 1600. 
13. Lentinus strigosus (Schw.) Fries, Syst. Orbis Veg. 77. 1825. 
Agaricus crinitus Schw. Schr. Nat. Ges. Leipzig 1:89. 1822. Not A. crinitusL. 1753. 
Agaricus strigosus Schw. Schr. Nat. Ges. Leipzig 1: 89. 1822. 
Lentinius Lecomtei Fries, Syst. Orbis Veg. 77. 1825. 
Panus rudis Fries, Epicr. Myc. 398. 1838. 
Lentinus sparsibarbis Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 301. 1868. 
Lentinus substrigosus P. Henn. & Shirai; P. Henn. Bot. Jahrb. 28: 270. 1900. 
Pileus thin, tough, eccentric, depressed to infundibuliform, subcespitose, 2-6 cm. broad; 
surface strigose with erect, fascicled, concolorous hairs, purplish, becoming ochraceous-fawn- 
colored, margin slightly incurved or subexpanded: context having a mild taste; lamellae not 
anastomosing, subglandular, decurrent, crowded, narrow, nearly entire, pallid: spores obovoid- 
oblong, smooth, hyaline, 6-8 3.5 uw: stipe densely strigose, subconcolorous, solid, tough, larger 
below, 2~3 cm. long, 3-6 mm. thick. 
Type LocaLity: North Carolina. 
Hasitrat: On old logs and stumps of both coniferous and deciduous trees. 
DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan. 
IuLustrations: Hard, Mushrooms f. 179; Lucand, Champ. Fr. fl. 46; Pat. Tab. Fung. f. 637. 
Exsiccatl: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 403; Barth. Fungi Columb. 3526. 
14. Lentinus strigellus Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10:302. 1868. 
Panus (Eupanus) guaraniticus Speg. Anal. Soc. Ci. Argent. 16: 275. 1883. 
Pocillaria simulans Earle, Inf. An. Estac. Centr. Agron. Cuba 1: 232. 1906. 
Pocillaria Palmeri Earle, Inf. An. Estac. Centr. Agron. Cuba 1: 232. 1906. 
Pileus soft and delicate, thin, subflexible when dry, infundibuliform, gregarious, 3-7 cm. 
broad; surface pale-reddish-brown to dark-fulvous, beset with scattered tufts of soft, fascicled, 
reddish-brown hairs, soon becoming nearly glabrate except on the margin, which is ciliate, not 
striate: lamellae crowded, rather narrow, decurrent, forking but not anastomosing, white or 
paler than the pileus, minutely downy, not glandular: spores ellipsoid, hyaline, 7-9X4-5 p: 
stipe central, cylindric above, slightly enlarged below, concolorous, velvety-strigose throughout, 
solid, 1-4 cm. long, 2-5 mm. thick. 
TYPE LocaLity: Cuba. 
Hasitat: On dead wood. 
DisrrRiBvution: Tropical America. 
ILLUSTRATION: Inf. An. Estac. Centr. Agron. Cuba 1: pl. 31, f. 4. 
15. Lentinus velutinus Fries, Linnaea 5:510. 1830. 
Panus velutinus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 398. 1838. 
Lentinus ciliatus Lév. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 2: 175, 1844, 
Lentinus setiger Lév. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 2: 176. 1844. 
?Lentinus caelopus Lév. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 5: 116. 1846. 
Lentinus echinopus Lév. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 5:118. 1846. 
Lentinus siparius Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 301. 1868. 
Lentinus blepharodes Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 301. 1868. 
Lentinus (Scleroma) fallax Speg. Anal. Soc. Ci. Argent. 16: 274. 1883. 
