Lenzites 



AGARICACE/E 



315 



LVIII. LENZITES Fr. 

 (After Harold Othmar Lenz, German botanist.) 



Veil obsolete. P ileus corky or coriaceous, texture arid, floccose, 

 dimidiate, sessile. Stem lateral or none. Gills coriaceous, firm, 



Fig. 72. Lenrites betulina Fr. , entire and in section. Lower surface on left, 

 upper on right. One-third natural size. 



sometimes simple and unequal, sometimes anastomosing and forming 

 pores behind, edge obtuse to acute ; trama floccose, similar to the 

 pileus. (Fig. 72.) 



Growing on wood, persistent. Allied most nearly to Trametes 



and Dadalea amongst the Polyporacea. Species 1451 1455 



On wood of deciduous trees. 1451, 1452 



On coniferous wood. 1453 1455 



1451. L. betulina Fr. (from its frequent habitat, birch trunks ; betnla, 



birch) a b c. 



P. firm, rigid, tomentoso-woolly, flat, lobed, white, greyish, buff 

 or umber-whitish ; marg. and z. darker. G. reaching the base, 

 simple, branched or anastomosing, edge acute. Flesh white. 



Often imbricate. Stumps, logs, gate-posts, birch, oak, bird-cherry, alder ; 

 perennial, common. Jan. -Dec. Diam. 8 in. When young small, 

 resupinate, with gills radiating from a central point. Often green with 

 unicellular Alga. Surface and coloration of pileus like that of 2001. 



1452. L. flaeeida Fr. (from the flaccid substance) a b c. 



P. thin, easily bent, flat, lobed, whitish to dingy, zoned same 

 colour. G. reaching the base or an excentric point, broad, 

 crowded, simple or branched towards base, not anastomosing, 

 white to salmon. Flesh white. 



Stumps, beech. Mar.-Jan. Diam. 4 in. Pileus often green as in 1451. 



