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Lentinus castaneus Ellis & Macbr. Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. Univ. Iowa 3?: 194. 1896. 
Pocillaria cinnamomea Earle, Inf. An. Estac. Centr. Agron. Cuba 1: 231. 1906. 
Pileus coriaceous, thin, infundibuliform, solitary to subcespitose, 4-6 cm. broad; surface 
velvety to fasciculate-hispid, pale-cinnamon to brown or chestnut-brown, azonate, rarely be- 
coming zonate, margin reflexed, ciliate, radiate-striate: lamellae entire, at times interveined, 
obconic-decurrent, crowded, thin, narrow, pale-flesh-colored to chestnut, velvety below: spores 
ellipsoid, 106 uw: stipe slender, tough, elongate, dry, velvety, ferruginous to chestnut, solid, 
cylindric above, slightly enlarged below, radicate, 6-15 cm. long, 3-5 mm. thick. 
Type LOCALITY: Brazil. 
Hastrat: On dead wood. 
_ DISTRIBUTION: Florida and Mexico to subtemperate South America; also in oriental tropical 
regions. 
ILLustTRations: Mont. Pl. Cell. Cuba #1. 17, f. 3; Inf. An. Estac. Centr. Agron. Cuba 1: #l. 
31, f. 3. 
Exsiccatr: Ule, Myc. Bras. 49a, 49b; Rav. Fungi Am. 104. 
16. Lentinus levis (Berk. & Curt.) Murrill. 
Panus levis Berk. & Curt. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. II. 12: 427. 1853. 
Panus strigosus Berk. & Curt. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. III. 4: 296. 1859. 
Pileus thin, soft, large, eccentric, suborbicular, plane to depressed, 8-20 cm. broad; surface 
variable, usually villous, rarely glabrous or becoming so, white, becoming yellow on drying, 
margin thin: lamellae entire, decurrent, broad, distant, villous behind: spores narrowly oblong, 
slightly curved at times, smooth, hyaline, 123-4: stipe often eccentric, stout, white, at- 
tenuate above, tomentose, strigose below, 5-8 cm. long, 12-13 mm. thick. 
Typ# LocaLity: North Carolina. 
Hasitat: On trunks and logs. 
DIstRIBUTION: New England to Alabama in the eastern United States. 
17. Lentinus hirtus (Fries) Murrill, Mycologia 3:29. 1911. 
Agaricus (Pleurotus) hirtus Fries, Linnaea 5: 508. 1830. 
Panus hirtus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 398. 1838. 
Lentinus submembranaceus Berk. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2: 634. 1843. 
Agaricus hemispilus Lév. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 2: 168. 1844. 
Lentinus patulus Lév. Ann. Sci. Nat. TIT. 5: 119. 1846. 
Lentinus Tanghiniae Lév. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 5: 120. 1846. 
Lentinus striatulus Lév. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 5: 120. 1846, 
Lentinus calvescens Berk. Jour. Bot. & Kew Misc. 8: 141. 1856. 
Panus infundibulum Berk. & Curt. Proc. Am. Acad. 4: 121. 1858. 
Panus cubensis Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 300. 1868. 
Lentinus vellereus Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 301. 1868. 
Lentinus estriaius Berk. & Br. Jour. Linn. Soc. 14:44. 1873. 
Agaricus (Clilocybe?) calyx Speg. Anal. Soc. Ci. Argent. 16: 243. 1883. 
Lentinus (Scleroma) paraguayensis Speg. Anal. Soc. Ci. Argent. 16: 275. 1883. 
Crepidotus lentinoides Earle, Inf. An. Fstac. Centr. Agron. Cuba 1: 236. 1906. 
Pileus coriaceous, tough, often eccentric, convex to infundibuliform, often lobed, cespitose, 
8-15 em. broad; surface smooth or striate, glabrous or velvety, hygrophanous, white, becoming 
yellowish to fulvous when dry, margin thin, involute: lamellae decurrent, broad, subdistant, 
entire, white becoming yellowish, not anastomosing: spores natrowly ellipsoid, 6-8 X3-3.5 wu: 
stipe white becoming yellowish, fibrillose-striate or tomentose, eccentric, cylindric, dilated 
at the apex, solid, short, 1-2.5 cm. long, 1.3 cm. thick. 
Type Locatity: Brazil. 
Hasirat: On dead wood. 
DISTRIBUTION: Tropical regions of the world. 
In_ustration: Inf. An. Estac. Centr. Agron. Cuba 1: pl. 35. 
18. Lentinus hirtiformis Murriil, sp. nov. 
Pileus irregular, slightly one-sided, shallowly but broadly depressed, fleshy-tough, rather 
brittle when dry, solitary, 8-10 cm. broad; surface minutely fibrillose to glabrous, isabelline, 
slightly darker on drying, smooth, margin entire, concolorous, strongly inflexed on drying: 
context thin, white; lamellae decurrent nearly to the base of the stipe, narrow, crowded, white 
to yellowish or rosy-isabelline, very undulate when dry, edges entire: spores oblong-ellipsoid or 
