LENZ1TES. 



him. 



very arid, pendulous, commonly extended behind into a stem-like Schizophyl 

 base, entire or lobed, covered with 

 whitish-grey down. Gills fuscous- 

 grey then purplish, villous, revolute 

 at the edsre. 



On dead wood, logs, c. Rare in 

 Britain. 



White or greyish zoned, sometimes resu- 

 pinate. Jf.y.B. Spores very small, almost 

 globular, 3 mk. ll'.G.S. In Britain it is 



usually found and is common on foreign 

 logs. In the 'Scottish Cryptogamic Flora' 

 Greville records it as having been gathered 

 on Dundas Hill, near Edinburgh. I have ex- 

 amined his specimen in the Edinburgh Her- 

 barium marked " Dundas Hill." From the 

 locality and from Greville's well-known accu- 

 racy, there can be no doubt that it was in- L VIIL Schizophyllum commune. 

 digenous. Berkeley and Broome state that Natural size. Section ten times 

 ' ' undoubtedly indigenous specimens have natural size, 

 occurred both in Buckinghamshire and Kent 



in 1878." Name communis, common. Common in most countries. Fr. 

 JAwiHv;-. ji. p. 244. Hym. Eur. p. 492. Berk. Out. p. 228. B. & Br. n. 

 1796*. C. Hbk. n. 695. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 659. Grev. t. 61. Krombh. t. 

 4. /. 14-16. Ag. Linn. Batsch f. 126. Bull. t. 346, 581. /. i. Sow. t. 183. 



GENUS XX. Lenzites (after Lenz, a German botanist). Lenzites. 



Fr. Epicr. p. 403. 



Pileus corky or coriaceous, texture arid and floccose. Gills 

 coriaceous, firm, sometimes simple and unequal, sometimes anas- 

 tomosing and forming pores behind, trama floccose and similar 

 to the pileus, edge somewhat acute. The European species are 

 dimidiate, sessile, persistent, growing on wood, quite resembling 

 D&dalea. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 492. 



Allied most nearly to Trametes and Dcsdalea and forming as it 

 were the transition from Agaricini to Polyporei. In tropical 

 countries they are more woody in texture. 



* On wood of deciduous trees. 



1. L. betulina Fr. Pileus 2.5-5 cent - 0~ 2 m -) broad, pale, 

 grey-whitish, corky-coriaceous, firm and rigid, becoming plane, 

 tomentose, commonly obsoletely zoned, zones sometimes darker; 

 flesh floccose, white. Gills reaching the base, straight, some- 



