LENZITES. 



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very arid, pendulous, commonly extended behind into a stem-like Schizophyi- 

 base, entire or lobed, covered with lum- 



whitish-grey down. Gills fuscous- /tjfL — J^N 



grey then purplish, villous, revolute 



at the edge. 



On dead wood, logs, &c. 

 Britain. 



Rare in 



White or greyish zoned, sometimes resu- 

 pinate. M.J.B. Spores very small, almost 

 globular, 3 mk. IV.G.S. In Britain it is 

 usually found and is common on foreign 

 logs. In the 'Scottish Cryptogamic Flora' 

 Greville records it as having been gathered 

 on Dundas Hill, near Edinburgh. I have ex- 

 amined his specimen in the Edinburgh Her- 

 barium marked " Dundas Hill." From the 

 locality and from Greville's well-known accu- 

 racy, there can be no doubt that it was in- 

 digenous. Berkeley and Broome state that 

 "undoubtedly indigenous specimens have 

 occurred both in Buckinghamshire and Kent 

 in 1878." Name — communis, common. Common in most countries. Fr. 

 Monogr. ii. p. 244. Hym. Eur. p. 492. Berk. Out. p. 2.2&. B. cf Br. n. 

 1796*. C. Hbk. n. 695. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 659. Grev. t. 61. Krombh. t. 

 4../. 14-16. Ag. Linn. — Batschf. 126. Bull. t. 346, 581./ 1. Sow. t. 183. 



L VIII. Schizopliylliim commune. 

 Natural size. Section ten times 

 natural size. 



Genus XX. — Lenzites (after Lenz, a German botanist). Lenzites. 



Fr. Epicr. p. 403. 



Pileus corky or coriaceous, texture arid and floccose. Gills 

 coriaceous, firm, sometimes simple and unequal, sometimes anas- 

 tomosing and forming pores behind, trama floccose and similar 

 to the pileus, edge somewhat acute. The European species are 

 dimidiate, sessile, persistent, growing on wood, quite resembling 

 Dcedalece. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 492. 



Allied most nearly to Trametes and Dcedalea and forming as it 

 were the transition from Agaricini to Polyporei. In tropical 

 countries they are more woody in texture. 



* On wood of deciduous trees. 



1. L. betulina Fr. — Pileus 2.5-5 cent - ( I_2 in ) broad, pale, 

 grey-whitish, corky-coriaceous, firm and rigid, becoming plane, 

 tomen'tose, commonly obsolctely zoned, zones sometimes darker; 

 flesh floccose, white. Gills reaching the base, straight, some- 



