330 DECADES OF FUNGI. 
ut in Lenzite, subereo nec coriaceo, sed etiam lamellularam 
structurá formáque differt. 
H. Javensis, Mont. and Berk. (Tas. XIV.) 
Java. Zollinger n. 969. 
Effused for several inches and forming a nearly uniform 
stratum about 3 a line thick, springing from a white floccose 
mycelium consisting of intricate osculating irregularly 
branched inarticulate threads, which penetrate deeply into 
the substance of the matrix, and are quite confluent with its 
fibres; margin distinct, not the least byssoid, slightly at- 
tenuated and elevated. Hymenium pale straw colour, con- 
sisting of extremely delicate linear lamella, which are fre- 
quently forked and connected by anastomosing branches so 
as to form parallel slightly sinuous elongated alveoli. In 
general it is at a considerable distance from the point of 
bifurcation that the gills begin to diverge, and consequently 
the edges appear canaliculated as in Trogia, though they are 
not really grooved. They are clothed with a white farinose 
substance consisting of minute subglobose bodies which are 
either the true spores or conidia. In a vertical section there 
is a darker line corresponding with each gill, which seems to 
indicate that the plant is of slow growth. 
This genus is a nearer approach to the more perfect forms of 
Hymenomycetes even than Lenzites, and is to Polyporus what 
Lenzites is to Dedalea. The spurious canaliculation of the 
gills is an exaggeration of the little groove which often 
appears at the commencement of the bifurcation of gills pr 
folds, as for instance in Cantharellus Aurantiacus. It 18 
possible that this may be the same species with what 
Junghuhn has described under the name of Laschia crus- 
facea. Unfortunately the figure is not contained in any of 
the copies of his memoir which we have seen, and there are 
certain difficulties about the description. But even should 
it be the same it would be necessary to propose a new 
generic name as that of Laschia has been given by Fries 
to a different fungus. His second species of Laschia belongs 
clearly to some other genus. 
