LENTINUS. 



r 53 



On dead leaves, twigs, &c. Common. Sept.-Oct. Marasmius. 



In large specimens the gills form a close collar round the stem, margin of 

 the collar cream-coloured. M.J.B. Name — «rt, upon ; <f>v\\ov, a leaf. Fr. 

 Monogr. ii. p. 231. Hym. Eur. p. 479. Berk. Out. p. 224. C. Hbk. n. 

 679. S. My col. Scot. 11. 645. Ag. Tratt. Austr.f. 22. Fl. Dan. t. 1194. f. 

 1. Sow. t. 93. 



III.— APUS. 



35. M. spodoleucus Berk. — Fileus 4 mm. (2 lin.) broad, cinere- 

 ous, pulverulent or slightly furfuraceous, conchate, resupinate, 

 margin free, arched. Stem none. Hymenium white, very even. 

 Gills few, narrow, entire, so short as to have a naked space at 

 the base, white, interstices even. 



On dead elm-twigs. Batheaston. 



Spores very small, 1-2 mk. W.G.S. Name — anoSos, wood-ash; AevKo?, 

 white. From the cinereous pileus and white hymenium and gills. B. dr 3 Br. 

 n. 803. Berk. Out. p. 224. C. Hbk. u. 681. 



36. M. Broomei Berk. — Half-resupinate. Pallid brown then 

 striate black ; hymenium shining white. Gills distant, veined ; 

 interstices even. 



On dead twigs. Batheaston. Jan. 

 Name — after C. E. Broome. B. & Br. n. 1795. 



Genus XV. — Lentinus {le?itus, tough or pliant). Fr. Epicr. p. 387. Lentinus. 



Pileus fleshy-coriaceous, pliant, or in fleshy species becoming 

 hard when old, persistent. Hymen- 

 ophore continuous with the stem 

 or the base of the pileus when ses- 

 sile. Gills concrete with the hy- 

 menophore, thin, unequal, membran- 

 aceous, with the edge serrated or 

 torn in a toothed ma7iner. Spores 

 somewhat round, even, white. With 

 the exception of o?ie species, grow- 

 ing on wood, polymorplions, some- 

 what irregular, very ?iumerous in 

 warmer countries, decreasing in num- 

 ber and not becoming so hard to- 

 wards the ?iorth. Fr. Hym. Eur. 



P' 4o°- uv. Lentinus cochleatus. One- 



A very natural, though very poly- fourth natural size. 



