PANUS. 113 



If, strigosus. 



Pileus, bay brown, strigose, depressed in the center ; 

 margin involute, and strongly strigose, tough, leathery. 

 Gills, decurrent, edge torn, white at first, then brown. 

 Stem, curt, strigose, excentric, concolor. 

 Not very common ; found it on oak stumps throughout the Valley. 



Genus XL. PANUS. 

 A name given to an arboreal fungus by Pliny. Fleshy and 

 pliant, same as lycntinus, onl}' the edge of gills are entire. 



P. Strig-OSUS. B. & C. Hairy Panus. 



Pileus, eight inches broad, excentric, covered with coarse 



strigose hair, margin thin, white. 



Gills, broad, distant, decurrent, straw color. 



Stem, stout, two to four inches long, strigose like the pileus. 



It is recorded as growing on oak stumps, but I have always found it on 

 decayed spots on apple trees. 



P. Isevis. B. & C. Light Panus. 



Pileus, three inches, orbicular, depressed, white, covered 

 with a dense mat of hair, margin infiexed and marked by 

 triangular ridges. 



Gills, broad, entire, decurrent. 



Stem, attenuated upwards, excentric, lateral, solid, strigose 

 below, spores white. 



Scarce ; found specimens on locust trees. 



P. salicinus. Pk. 

 Pileus, one-fourth to one-half inch broad, firm, thin, 

 deflexed, hygrophanous, minutely farinaceo-tomentose, pinkish 

 ^rey, 



