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scales are more or less indistinct, fleshy, margin deeply sul- 
cate, atleast when dry, the raised interstices darker, which 
gives the pileus a yery neat appearance. Stem about } of an 
inch high, 14 line thick, often slightly attenuated downwards, 
solid, of the same colour as the pileus, furfuraceous, some- 
times confluent. Gills distant, broad, subventricose, emar- 
ginate behind, very slightly annexed, pallid, rather thick, in- 
distinctly toothed. 
This very pretty species is allied to Lentinus scleropus, &c. 
It appears to be undescribed and there can be no difficulty 
in recognising it. In consequence of the striate and sulcate 
margin, it bears at first sight a certain resemblance to Aga- 
ricus alutaceus. 
* Lentinus tigrinus, Fr. A most remarkable state of this 
species has been found by Mr. Lea (n. 245) in which the 
gills have anastomosed, until the whole pileus and gills have 
become a hard, solid mass. At first sight it has quite the 
appearance of a new genus; but I am convinced that itis 
merely a very curious, but monstrous state of our European 
species. 
—8. Polyporus (Mesopus) tabuleformis, n. sp; pileo orbi- 
culari centro crasso margine tenui sublobato subzonato proli- 
fero-rugoso velutino hic illic fasciculato-piloso ferrugineo- 
badio ; contextu ferrugineo divergenti- fibroso ; stipite centrali 
brevi obtusissimo in pileum effuso; poris parvis irregulari- 
bus pileo concoloribus, 
Augusta, U. S. Mr. Wray. 
Stem central, obeonical, very obtuse, 14 inch high, 2% thick 
in the middle, gradually effused into the pileus.  Pileus 
somewhat imbricated below, above prolifero-rugose, thick in 
the centre, thin towards the margin, 74 inches broad, orbi- 
cular slightly lobed and zoned, clothed with velvety down, 
which is here and there fasciculato-pilose, especially in the 
centre, of a rich ferruginous bay. Substance ferruginous, 
divergenti-fibrous. Pores small, one-fiftieth of an inch in 
diameter, irregular, rather deep, of the same colour as the 
pileus; dissepiments thin, edge irregular. 
