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acid, farinaceous. ALJ.B. Name after Dunal. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 481. Lentinus. 

 Berk. Out. p. 225. t. 15. /. 2. C. Hbk. n. 683. Datt. t. 12. A. 



2. L. lepideus Fr. Pileus 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) broad, pallid- 

 ochraceous, variegated with adpressed, darker, spot-like scales, 



fleshy, very compact and firm, irregular, commonly excentric, 

 convex then depressed, but not truly umbilicate, sometimes 

 broken up into cracks; flesh pliant, white. Stem short, com- 

 monly 2.5 cent, (i in.) long, solid, stout, very irregularly formed, 

 almost woody, tomentoso-scaly, whitish, rooted at the base, at tJie 

 first furnished with a corti?ia towards the apex. Gills decurrent, 

 but sinuate behitid, crowded, broad, transversely striate, whitish, 

 edge torn into teeth. 



Odour pleasant. Almost always solitary ; earlier than the rest, often ap- 

 pearing quite in spring. Very variable in stature and size. Cortina very 

 fugacious. Gills very remarkable in being sitruate behind while decurrent. 

 Often pierced by larvae when old. Sow. t. 382 is a monstrous form of this. 



On pine. Rare. July. 



Fries refers to various monstrous forms found in close places, cellars, aque- 

 ducts, &c. I have one such from under a floor ; more than 2 feet in height, 

 the very thick woody stem springing from a dense leathery stratum, which 

 covered yards of the wood, then branched and united in fantastic forms, like 

 branched coral, with here and there a small infundibuliform pileus on the end 

 of a branch. Spores very white. Fr. ; 11x5 mk. W.G.S. Name ACJTIS, a 

 scale. From the pileus. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 233. Hym. Eur. p. 481. Berk. 

 Out. p. 225. C. Hbk. n. 684. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 646. Ag. Schceff. t. 29, 30. 

 Buxb. C. iv. /. 25. 



** Pulverulent. Pileus villous or pulverulent. 



3. L. leontopodius Schulz. Pileus tan-clay-colour, fleshy- 

 coriaceous, tough, irregular, delicately to7ne)itose, disc depressed, 

 the deflexed margin slightly lobed. Stem thick, woody, un- 

 polished, pulverulent, pale chestnut, blackish downwards. Gills 

 decurrent, connected by veins, wrinkled at the sides, serrated at 

 the edge. 



Large, handsome, with a pleasant taste. Pileus here and there cinnamon 

 with the down. 



On decayed willow. Menmuir, Forfarshire. 



Name AeW, a lion ; TTOUS, a foot. From the appearance of the stem. 

 Schulz. Kalchbr. in litt. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 482. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 647. 



4. L. pulverulentus Fr. Pileus yellow, mealy with white 

 dust, fleshy-pliant, convex. Stem stout, elongated, equal, rigid, 

 mealy with white dust. Gills slightly toothed, white. 



Caespitose. 



