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firm, silicate, glabrous, reddisb. LamelLt close, serrate, fleshy-white. 

 Spores uearly globular, .004 mm. iu diameter. 



About the base of old stumps. Pileus 1-1^ in. broad, the stipes of 

 variable length. Usually vcr}- ii.ueh tultod with the stipe confluent 

 below. 



B. Pileus dimidiate, sessile. 



8. L. URSiNUS, Fr. — Sessile, imbricate. Pilei fleshy-tough, eared- 

 ascending, even, brown-reddish, when mature brown-tomentose below; 

 the mar<rin glabrous, entire. Lamelhe broad, torn, whitish. 



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Upon rotten trunks of beech. Pileus 1-2 in. long, and about 1 in. 

 wide. Pileus quite thick, at first glabrous, expallent, ear-form. 



9. L. VULPINUS, Fr. — Sessile, imbricate-multiplex. Pilci fleshy-tough, 

 conchate, connate behind, longitudinally costate-corrugate, floccose- 

 scrupose, alutaceous; the margin incurved, entire. Lamellaj broad, 

 torn, white. Spores nearly globose, .0015 mm. in diameter. 



Upon old trunks of elm. Pileus 1-2 in. long, and about an inch 

 broad. The spores abundant, powdering the plants. 



10. L. PELLicuLosus, Fr, — Sessile, imbricate. Pileus tough, mem- 

 branaceous, reiiiform, ver}- thin, strigose, brown-tawny; the margin 

 naked, involute. Lamella broad, torn, pallid. 



Upon rotten trunks late in autumn. Pileus 2 4 in, long, and 1 3 in. 

 broad. Pileus strigose with a dense hairy coat like the skin of some 

 animal. 



Genus XII. — Pands, Fr. 



The whole fungus fleshy coriaceous, tough, drying up; the texture 

 fibious, radiating into the hymenium. Lainelhe concrete with the hy- 

 incMoplKue, unequal, at length coriaceous; the edge wholly entire. 



A. Pileus plainly stipitate, 



ft. Lamellie deciirreut, 1, 2. 



b. Lamellae determinate, 3, 4, 

 li. Pileus sessile or nearly so, 5, 6. 



A. Pileu.s plainljf .stipitate. 

 (I. Lai/tel/cB decurrent. 



1. P coNcuATUS, Fr. — Pileus fleshy tough, thin, unecpial, excentric 

 and dimidiate, cinnamon Ihcn expallent, at length scaly. Stipe short, 

 unequal, pubescent at the base. Lamellai lineately decurrent, some- 

 what branched, white-fleshy then ochraceous. Spores white. 



