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AGARICINI. 



Lentinus. broken up into scales or fibrous teeth towards the margin, hence 

 entirely rough and corrugated, and white-warty behind. Gills 

 extended to the base, broad, crowded, torn into teeth. 



Pilei like steps of a ladder (the intermediate ones largest, 7.5 cent. (3 in.) 

 broad), horizontal, connate behind in a dense cluster, the common base pierc- 

 ing the trunks of trees. Substance white. Margin thin, incurved, becoming 

 fuscous in older specimens. When dry the pileus often gapes open in longi- 

 tudinal cracks. The gills at the base are concrete with the substance of the 

 pileus. It sheds very plentiful, ^vhite spores, hence the clusters when old are 

 very white-mealy. 



On stumps. Rare. 



Smell very strong and overpowering, somewhat resembling that of field 

 mint. M.J.B. Spores almost globular, very small, 2 mk. W.G.S. Name 

 vulpes, a fox ; foxy. Meaning obscure. Ft: Monogr. ii. p. 238. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 486. Icon. t. 176. f. i. Berk. Out. p. 226. C. Hbk. n. 687. Sow. 



10. L. flabelliformis Fr. Somewhat sessile. Pileus not ex- 

 ceeding 2.5 cent, (i in.) broad, pallid fawn-colour, mcmbrana- 

 ceous, pliant, remform, plane, even, smooth, margin frmbriato- 

 toothed. Stem commonly rudimentary, thin, 4-6 mm. (2-3 lin.) 

 long. Gills broad, somewhat distant, rather thick, pallid or 

 whitish, torn into teeth at the edge. 



Commonly exactly lateral with a rudimentary stem; much smaller and 

 thinner than any of the rest, at length crisped. Var. herbarum very small, 

 the membranaceous pileus becoming pale. 



On stumps. Rare. 



Perhaps Bolton's plant may be only Ag. salignus. M.J.B. Name; -flabel- 

 lum, a small fan ; forma, form. From the shape. Fr. Monogr. ii. /. 239. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 487. Berk. Out. p. 226. C. Hbk. n. 689. Ag. Bolt. t. 157 ? 



Panus GENUS XVI. Panus (a name given to an arboreal fungus by 



Pliny.) Fr. Epicr. p. 396. 



Whole fungus fleshy-coriaceous, tough, drying up, of fibrous 

 texture, which radiates into the hymenium. Gills concrete with 

 the hymenophore, unequal, at length coriaceous, edge quite entire. 

 Spores even, white, somewhat cylindrical in species which have 

 been examined. Growing on wood, various inform, lasting long. 



A genus which must be inserted in this series on account of 

 its flesh which is pliant and somewhat coriaceous (even in the 

 gills), allied to the Lentini> but differing from them in the firmer, 

 coriaceous and very entire gills. Either poisonous, or owing to 

 the toughness of the substance not suitable for eating. Fr. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 487. 



