I LASSIPICATION OF A.OARK 



flesh have a distinct <lull yellow tinge. 1 1 was round in mixed » I- 



in the Northern Peninsula. 



22. Lentinus microsperma Pk. 

 Torr. Bot Club. Bull. 33, L906. 



PILEUS 3-5 cm. broad, thin, convex, obtuse, Bof1 pliant, glabrous, 

 even, brownA8h-t<wi } darker on disk, margin spreading. FLESH 

 white, thin. GILLS adnexed-emarginate, rather aarrow, attenuate 

 in front, close, white, becoming dingy creamy-yellowish, edge 

 lacerate-crenulate. STEM 3-6 cm. long, I LO nun. thick, varying 

 slender or rather stout, hollow, terete or compressed, eccentric, 

 sometimes grooved, glabrous, equal, whitish. SPORES minute 

 globose, 34.5 micr., smooth, while. CYSTIDIA none. BA8IDIA 

 clavate, aboul 25x5 micr. TASTE bitterish. 



Caespitose. On decayed wood. New Richmond. September. 

 Rare. 



This species was first sent to Peck from Missouri, h seems to 

 be quite distinct although rare. I have collected it but once. 



23. Lentinus cochleatus IV. (Edible) 

 Syst. Myc, 1821. (As Omphalia cochleata.) Epicrisis, 1836 - 



Illustrations: Gillet, Champignons <Ic France, X<>. lo::. 

 Ki.k. mi. Blatterpilze, PI. 26, Pig. 1. 

 Patouillard, Tab. Analyt, No. L26. 

 Cooke. 111.. Plate 11 l_. 

 ll.nd. Mushrooms, Fig. 183, p. 229, 1908. 



PILEUS 2-5 cm. broad, tough, flaccid, irregularly-compressed 

 lobcrf. variable in shape, depressed to mfundibuliform, glabrous, 

 pale reddish ochraceous to brownish-isabelline. FLESH thin, whit- 

 ish. GILLS decurrent, rather broad, close, whitish tinged flesh 

 color, edge serrate. STEM -".7 cm. long, 3-7 nun. thick, glabn 

 central, eccentric or sublateral, confluent at base, deeply suh 

 solid, variously and Irregularly thickened, concolor. SPOH 

 minute, subglobose, I 5 micr. diam., smooth, white in mass. ODOR 

 somewhat aromat ic. 



Confluent-caespitose, in dense tufts. On stumps, decaying wood 



of birch, ash. chestnut, etc., sometimes on w l buried in tl 



in mixed ;unl frondose woods. Throughout the Btate. Jul 

 tenihei-. Common locallv. 



