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downwards, central to excentric, fugitive-torn-annulate, pale 

 yellowish. G. decurrent, crowded, white or pale pallid 

 yellowish. 



Often subgregarious or crespitose. Tasteless ; odour strong, acrid or acid. 

 Stumps, oak, ash, poplar, fir ; rare. April-Oct. 2| x l X | in. 

 Var. Dunalii Fr. P. with adpressed separating, spot-like sc., then even. 



1433. L. lepideus Fr. (from the scaly pileus ; Gr. lepis, a scale) a b c. 

 P. convex to depressed, pale yellowish, clad with umber sc. ; 



mid. darker. St. solid, almost woody, irregular, usually 

 somewhat excentric and attenuate downwards, colour as P., 

 dark sienna-umber at base, fugitive-torn-annulate. G. decurrent 

 or sinuate, crowded, pale yellowish. 



Solitary or subcrespitose. Odour strong, from pleasant to that of rotten 

 cheese. On pine wood, trunks, stumps, fallen pines, elm, railway 

 sleepers, wooden bridges, in houses, cellars, railway tunnels. Mar.-Oct. 

 5 x Si x ' i n - Often abnormal and Ctavaria-like. Sometimes 

 phosphorescent. Var. configitns Fr. P. thinner, piano-depressed, even. 

 St. slender, even. 



b. Pulverulentiz. 



1434. L. leontopodius Schulz. ex Fr. (from a fancied resemblance in 



the shape and colour of the pileus to a lion's foot ; Gr. lean, a 



lion, pous, a foot) a. 



P. expanded, depressed, boldly lobed, tan-clay colour, cinnamon 

 or salmon-umber. St. woody, equal, excentric, pulverulent, 

 pale chestnut or umber-salmon, blackish downwards. G. 

 decurrent, veined, white. 



Gregarious or coespitose in small clusters. Taste pleasant, sweet. Decayed 

 willow. Autumn. 7 x 3 X li in. 



1435. L. pulverulentus Fr. (from the pulverulent pileus) a. 



P. convex, yellow, ochreous-cinnamon or umber-yellowish, lighter 

 at marg., white-pulverulent. St. solid, excentric, velvety dark 

 umber above, brownish-yellow below. G. crowded, sub- 

 decurrent, white or pale yellowish. 



Somewhat crespitose, sometimes connato-branched and deeply rooting. 

 Dead trunks, pines. Oct. if X 3 X 5 in. Var. resinacais Fr. P. some- 

 what gummy villous. 



1436. L. adhserens Fr. (from the sticky gluten of the pileus and 



stem) a. 



P. convex, subumbonate, then depressed to subinfundibuliform, 

 sulcate, umber-tan or umber-yellowish. St. somewhat hollow, 

 rooting, white, then as P. G. sinuato-decurrent, thin, white. 



Taste at length astringent. \Yoods, pine ; rare. Autumn, if X 2i X J in. 



1436a. L. suffruteseens Fr. (from the somewhat branching habit ; 



fruteX) a shrub) a. 



P. tough, convex, then infundibuliform, unequal, glabrous, 

 whitish, becoming brown stained. St. elongated, somewhat 



