LENZITES. 165 



Name — scepis, a hedge, fence. Growing on old fences. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. Lenzites. 



247. Hym. Eur. p. 494. Berk. Out. p. 228. C. Hbk. n. 698. S. Mycol. 



Scot. n. 661. Daedalea — Sc/iaff. t. 76. Ag. Sow. t. 418. Buxb. C. v. t. 6. — 

 Vaill. t. 1. f. 1-3 (resupinate var.) 



4. L. abietina Fr. — Pileus umber-tomentose t „\h.zxi becoming 

 smooth, hoary, coriaceous, thin and comparatively soft, zoneless, 

 effuso-reflexed ; flesh very thin, of the same colour as the pileus. 

 Gills decurrent in the effused base, distant, simple, unequal, not 

 anastomosing, but here and there interrupted, or torn into teeth, 

 becomitig glaucoics with dense pniina. 



Nearly always lengthened out even to as much as 30 cent. (12 in.), but 

 always remaining narrow, about 12 mm. {% in.) broad. Effuso-reflexed, but 

 sometimes remaining resupinate. 



Chiefly on dressed fir. Rare. Glasgow. Perennial. 



Perhaps imported. Name — adzes, fir. Fr. Monogr. ii. /. 247. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 495. Berk. Out. p. 229. C. Hbk. ?i. 699. S. Mycol. Scot. 11. 662. Ag. 

 Bull. t. 442. f. 2, 541./. I. Vcntur. t. 60. f. 3-5. 



