634 NOTICES OF BRAZILIAN FUNGI. 
On a lime tree. Inficionado. Oct. 1840. 
Cespitose, dirty white ; pileus 13-2 inches broad excentric, 
sub-elongated, very slightly depressed T: quite smooth, 
and free from striæ. 
Stems 14 inch high, about 2 lines thick; more or less 
connate, firm, pruinose, attenuated below from their crowded 
habit. 
Gills rather broad, acutely decurrent, quite entire. 
This specimen approaches somewhat to Lentinus friabilis 
and L. Sajor Caju, but it is distinguished at once from the 
former, by its not being umbilicato-pervious, and from the 
latter, by its not being umbilicate or sub-infundibuliform, 
and by its long stem. The same species, or one very closely 
allied, occurs at the Cape of Good Hope, and I have seen 
what appears to be the same, from other quarters. 
15. L. submembranaceus, n. s., albidus; pileo excentrico 
suborbiculari, demum subdepresso lobato-fisso, glabro margine 
submembranaceo; stipite deorsum subeequali cartilagineo- 
corticato rimosulo ; lamellis latiusculis decurrentibus. 
On a dead tree near Pinanga. Minas Geraes. Oct. 1840. 
Gregarious, dirty white. Pileus 14-4 inches broad, excen- 
tric orbicular smooth, at length more or less lobed and split, 
slightly depressed behind, but not umbilicate ; "— ex- 
tremely thin, and almost membranaceous. 
Stem 13 of an inch long, 1-5 lines thick, nearly equal, 
sometimes, however, incrassated at the base, coated with a 
cartilaginous bark, in which are numerous minute fissures. 
Gills rather broad, decurrent. 
Differing from the foregoing in its thinner pileus, and 
generally equal cartilaginous, rimulose stem. It attains 
sometimes, a considerable size, but perfect specimens occur as 
small as Lentinus albidus, and are then with difficulty distin- 
guished. There is no doubt, however, that the two species 
are really distinct. 
` 16. Lenzites applanata, Fr. Ep. p. 404. 
Goyaz. Feb. 1840. Arrial das Merces, Minas Geraes. 
On the banks of the Parahibana. Oct. 1840. 
