232 MR. GEORGE MURRAY ON TWO NEW SPECIES OF LENTINUS. 
Lentinus grew forth, as in the case of L. scleroticola. We have here then just such 
another case of a Lentinus, the mycelium of which is a perennial inhabitant of a large 
sclerotium. | 
The other Lentinus referred to in the heading of this paper was collected by the Rev. 
W. E. Taylor in the Rabai Hills, Mombaz, East Africa, during the autumn of last year. 
He has already sent home to the British Museum a very interesting and extensive series 
of plants from that region, and he is now, in spite of difficulty and danger, engaged in 
collecting both the flora and fauna of this region. I have much pleasure in associating 
his name with this new Lentinus. 
LENTINUS TAYLORIT, п. sp.; pileo crateriformi, coriaceo, umbrino squamis subconcentricis 
ad basin ornato, margine revoluto, integro; stipite longo, solido, fulvo, fusco- 
maculato, versus basin squamuloso, cavo; lamellis decurrentibus, fuscis. 
The lower extremity of the stem was broken off an inch or so below the surface of 
the ground. 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXXII. 
Fig. 1. Lentinus scleroticola, G. Murr. (nat. size), on sclerotium. 
Fig. 2. Section through sclerotium showing Lentinus rhizoids. Nat. size. 
Fig. 3. Another section through sclerotium following direction of rhizoids terminating externally 
at a, fig. 1, and seen in section fig. 2 at b. Nat. size. 
Fig. 4. Section of portion of sclerotium : а, Lentinus rhizoids; b, sclerotium tissue. х 450. 
Fig. 5. Lentinus Taylorii, С. Murr. Nat. size. 
Fig. 6. View of pileus from above. Nat. size. 
