1 12 Rev. M. J, Berkeley on Agaricns crinitus, 



This species is well described in the ' Synopsis Lentinoiuni,' but no figure 

 has hitherto been published. The pileus is far more densely clothed with 

 fibres, the margin distinctly involute, the stem black, covered with a dull 

 branny coat ; the gills crowded and very distinctly glandular. This is L. vil- 

 losus, Klotzsch, in Sir W. J. Hooker's herbarium, where he regards the two 

 foregoing species as varieties. L. villosus, Fries, is quite a different species, and 

 known generally under the name of L. Berterii. The species of Fries how- 

 ever, so named, is quite different. What the original plant of Sprengel is 

 upon which that species is founded, I have no means at present of ascer- 

 taining. 



5. Lentinus Leveillei ; pileo tenui lat^ infundibuliformi repando explanato 

 rigidiusculo floccis crispatis subfasciculatis rarioribus vestito, stipite 

 sequali nigro furfuraceo, lamellis confertis furcatis decurrentibus glan- 

 dulosis ochraceis acie granulato-dentatis postic^ vix anastomosantibus. 

 (Tab. IX. fig. 5.) 



Hab, Surinam. Communicated by M. Miquel (marked No. 17) to M. Leveille, who kindly 

 lent me the specimen. 



Pileus about l^^ inch across, thin, rather rigid when dry, broadly infundibuliform, with the 

 border arched, and the margin somewhat lobed, minutely denticulated, and not in the 

 least inflected or involute, of a pale bay, fibrilloso-striate, and clothed with sparing fas- 

 cicles of paler, slightly crisped, flat filaments. Stem about 1 inch high, 1 hne thick, 

 flexuous, nearly black, sparingly furfuraceous. Gills rather distant, forked, ochraceous ; 

 edge rough with minute granular processes, sprinkled with glandular processes. 



This species approaches nearest to L.nlgripes, but is smaller, the pileus less 

 densely clothed, and the margin not in the least involute. M. L6veille has 

 lately given the characters of several new species, but none of them apparently 

 closely allied to any of those just described. The species in the herbarium at 

 the Jardin des Plantes which belong to this group are from Gaudichaud, col- 

 lected from 1831 to 1833, and numbered from 38 to 41. M. L6veill6 does not 

 seem to have noticed them. 



