Lentinus AGARICACE^E 309 



downwards, central to excentric, fugitive-torn-annulate, pale 



yellowish. G. decurrent, crowded, white or pale pallid 



yellowish. 



Often subgregarious or caespitose. Tasteless ; odour strong, acrid or acid. 

 Stumps, oak, ash, poplar, fir ; rare. April-Oct. 2f x i| X J in. 

 Var. Dunalii Fr. P. with adpressed separating, spot-like sc, then even. 



1433. L. lepideus Fr. (from the scaly pileus ; Gr. lepis, a scale) a b c. 

 P. convex to depressed, pale yellowish, clad with umber sc. ; 



mid. darker. St. solid, almost woody, irregular, usually 



somewhat excentric and attenuate downwards, colour as P., 



dark sienna-umber at base, fugitive-torn-annulate. G. decurrent 



or sinuate, crowded, pale yellowish. 



Solitary or subcaespitose. Odour strong, from pleasant to that of rotten 

 cheese. On pine wood, trunks, stumps, fallen pines, elm, railway 

 sleepers, wooden bridges, in houses, cellars, railway tunnels. Mar. -Oct. 

 5i * 5i x l m - Often abnormal and Ctavaria-like. Sometimes 

 phosphorescent. Var. contiguits Fr. P. thinner, piano-depressed, even. 

 St. slender, even. 



b. Pulveruletitce. 



1434. L. leontopodius Schulz. ex Fr. (from a fancied resemblance in 



the shape and colour of the pileus to a lion's foot ; Gr. leo?i, a 



lion, pons, a foot) a. 



P. expanded, depressed, boldly lobed, tan-clay colour, cinnamon 



or salmon-umber. St. woody, equal, excentric, pulverulent, 



pale chestnut or umber-salmon, blackish downwards. G. 



decurrent, veined, white. 



Gregarious or caespitose in small clusters. Taste pleasant, sweet. Decayed 

 willow. Autumn. 7 x 3 X i| in. 



1435. L. pulverulentus Fr. (from the pulverulent pileus) a. 



P. convex, yellow, ochreous-cinnamon or umber-yellowish, lighter 

 at marg., white-pulverulent. St. solid, excentric, velvety dark 

 umber above, brownish-yellow below. G. crowded, sub- 

 decurrent, white or pale yellowish. 



Somewhat caespitose, sometimes connato-branched and deeply rooting. 

 Dead trunks, pines. Oct. if x 3 X J in. Var. resinaceus Fr. P. some- 

 what gummy villous. 



1436. L. adhserens Fr. (from the sticky gluten of the pileus and 



stem) a. 

 P. convex, subumbonate, then depressed to subinfundibuliform, 

 sulcate, umber-tan or umber-yellowish. St. somewhat hollow, 

 rooting, white, then as P. G. sinuato-decurrent, thin, white. 



Taste at length astringent. Woods, pine ; rare. Autumn, if X i\ x \ in. 



1436a. L. suffrutescens Fr. (from the somewhat branching habit; 

 frutcx, a shrub) a. 

 P. tough, convex, then infundibuliform, unequal, glabrous, 

 whitish, becoming brown stained. St. elongated, somewhat 



