316 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



not pervious, glabrous, flesli-co]our, becoming pale and some- 

 what tan-colour. Gills decurrent, crowded, serrate, whitish 

 with a tinge of flesh-colour. (Fries.) 



Veiy much tufted. Several stems are confluent in such a 

 way as to make it doubtful whether the several pilei are 

 really distinct, or are only lobes of one large one, the circle 

 of the gills being always incom2:tlete on the side of the 

 common centre, the whole forming a lobed funnel with 

 deflected edges. The surface is rough, with prominent 

 minute ribs or prickles (as expressed by Sowerby's figure), 

 pale rufescent, often powdered with the white sporules, 

 1-1 J in. broad. 



Sometimes the surface is more even, but still somewhat 

 sculptured so as to be rough with raised lines. Stem com- 

 pound, strongly ribbed and sulcate, the ribs being continua- 

 tions of the serrated paler decurrent gills. At first the 

 pileus and gills are tender, stem firm and leathery. Odour 

 agreeable. (Berk.) 



11. PLEUEOTI. 



Lentinus Scoticus. B. & Br. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh thin, soft, very variable, plane, 

 umbilicate, or infundibuliform, smooth, pallid or brownish, 

 hygrophanous ; stem excentric or lateral, variable darker 

 than the pileus, pulverulent, springing from a branched, 

 brown mycelium ; gills decurrent when the stem is present, 

 rather distant, strongly toothed, pallid; spores elliptical, 

 smooth, 0-6 X 4 /x. 



Lentinus Scoticus, Berk. & Broome, Ann. Nat. Hist., no. 

 1423; Cke., Hdbk., p. 356; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1143. 



On furze, birch, &c. 



Inodorous, or, at any rate, without any odour of aniseed ; 

 extremely variable ; pileus ^-1 J in. broad, smooth, hygro- 

 phanous, pallid, at length brownish ; either quite stemless 

 and reniform, or variously stipitate, solitary or caespitose, 

 sometimes deeply umbilicate, lobed at the margin and 

 sinuate or plicate ; stem, when present, varying from 2 lines 

 to as many inches ; gills rather distant, strongly toothed, 

 decurrent when the stem is developed. Yery rarely two 



