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AGARICACE, 



Marasmius 



C. 



1431. M. spodoleueus B. & Br. (from its grey pileus and white gills ; 



Gr. spodos, wood-ash, Icukos, white) a b c. 



P. at first flat, resupinate, then campanulate, at length pendulous, 

 pulverulent or subfurfuraceous, cinereous or pale umber. G. 

 inside bell, few, short, leaving a naked space at apex of bell, 

 interstices even. Flesh umber. 



Dead twigs, elm. Nov.-Mar. Diam. f in. The same as M. Brooinei 

 Berk. Sometimes not unlike 1449. 



LIII. LENTINUS Fr. 



(From the tough, pliant substance ; Icntns, tough or pliant.) 



Veil ragged-pendulous at the margin of the pileus and more or 

 less fugitive-annulate in the first section, in the other except 1439 



obsolete. Pilens fleshy-coriaceous, 

 pliant or hard, persistent. Stem hard, 

 central, lateral or obsolete, con- 

 tinuous with the hymenophore when 

 present. Gills concrete with the 

 hymenophore, thin, membranous, un- 

 equal, tough, edge acute, often serrate, 

 crenate or irregular ; trama none. 

 Spores white. (Fig. 67.) 



Growing on wood, rarely ter- 

 restrial, polymorphous, somewhat 

 irregular. Distinguished from Pleu- 

 rotns by the hardness of the flesh and 

 the serrate gills. Species 1432 1441 



MESOPOD^E. Pilens nearly entire, 

 margin at first inrolled. Stem 

 distinct. 



a. Lepidece. Pileus scaly. More 



or less veiled. 1432, 1433 



b. Pulverulentce. Pileus villous 



or pulverulent. 1434 1436 



c. Cochleatiz. Pileiis smooth. 



1437 

 Dimidiate, sessile or furnished with a somewhat 



Fig. 67. Section of Lentinus 



cochleatus Fr. 

 One-half natural size. 



PLEUROT^E. 



lateral stem. 



14381441 



MESOPODyE. 



a. Lepidece. 



1432. L. tigrinus Fr. (from the tiger-like markings of the pileus) a be. 



P. convex, umbilicate to infundibuliform, pale yellowish, clad 



with umber sc. ; mid. sepia. St. solid, equal or attenuate 



