110 Rev. M, J.' Berkeley on Agaricus crinitus, 



where it is slightly incrassated, dark, and expands over the wood on which it grows, 

 paler than the pileus and clothed with a little white silky meal, with a few very minute 

 dark scales towards the base. Gills narrow, rather rigid, subochraceous, nearly entire, 

 rather distant, slightly forked, glandular, decurrent and anastomosing behind. 



The fungus described by Fries as Ag. crinitus, Swartz, is a very distinct 

 species, of which I have given a figure and description in the 'Annals of 

 Natural History,' from an authentic specimen in the British Museum. It 

 was supposed at the time that Swartz's name was correct, but on consulting 

 the Linnean herbarium it appeared to be very different. I possess specimens 

 from Brazil, and there is one in the herbarium of Mr. Edward Forster. It is 

 distinguished at once by its very pale colour, fasciculate hairs and other pecu- 

 liarities. This was stated in the second volume of Sir W. J. Hooker's ' Lon- 

 don Journal of Botany,' p. 632, and the name of Lentinus Swartzii proposed 

 for it. 



Of the synonyms cited by Linnaeus, that in Brown's ' History of Jamaica,' 

 tab. 15. fig. 1, is a fair representation of the species. The plant of Plumier, 

 tab. 168. fig. B, is clearly something of a totally different character. 



2. Lentinus thner; pileo tenui regulari latb infundibuliformi repando cer- 

 vino fibris fasciculatis subcrispis vestito subtus sericeo-striato margine 

 subsulcato, stipite gracili aeqiiali pallido granulato-furfuraceo, lamellis 

 subdistantibus pallido-ligneis opacis lato-denticulatis glandulosis decur- 

 rentibus postic^ vix anastomosantibus. (Tab. IX. fig. 2.) 



Lentinus tener, Klotzsch. Fries, Syn. Lent. p. 6 ; Epicrisis, p. 389. Berk, in 

 Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. vol. ii. p. 632. 



Hub. On wood. Organ Mountains, Gardner; and according to Klotzsch, New Orleans. 

 [Hook. Herb.) 



Pileus 2| inches across, regularly infundibuliform, with the border spreading, thin and 

 flexible, not at all rigid, fawn-coloured, darker in the centre, clothed with scattered 

 fascicles of fibres, which are paler towards the margin ; these gradually fall off and 

 expose the surface of the pileus, which is striate with innate fibres ; margin sulcate, 

 not involute. Stem nearly 1^ inch high, more than a line thick, pale, smooth, with 

 the exception of a few minute granular branny scales. Gills rather distant, decurrent, 

 scarcely at all anastomosing at the base, broadly toothed, or rather incised, glandular, 

 of a pallid wood colour, with a peculiar opake appearance. 



