Masses. — On the Fungus Flora of Neiv Zealand. 347 



like squamules, 4-8 cm. across; flesh 4-6 mm. thick at the 

 disc, white; gills decurrent, slightly sinuate, 4-6 mm. broad, 

 margin irregular, torn, transversely striate, whitish or tinged 

 with yellow; spores narrowly elliptical, smooth, 7x3/>t; stem 

 usually 2-3 cm. long but sometimes longer, about 1 cm. thick, 

 tapering below into a rooting base, hard, pale, with downy 

 squamules, the veil soon disappearing. 



On logs, stumps, &c. Dannevirke, New Zealand. Aus- 

 tralia, Europe, Siberia, United States. 



Showy, large, firm, much deformed, often somewhat 

 excentnc ; smell pleasant. Often white. Developing into 

 very grotesque forms when growing in dark situations. 



128. Lentimcs zealandicus, Sacc, Syll. v., no. 2467. Scleroma 

 pygmcBum, Berk., Flora N.Z., ii., p. 176; Hdbk. N.Z. 

 Flora, p. 605. 



Pileus thin, rather tough, cream-colour or dingy-white, 

 glabrous, slightly striate, deeply umbilicate or funnel-shaped, 

 l-5-2-5cm. across; gills decurrent, rather distant and broad, 

 edge quite entire, interstices even ; spores pip-shaped, hya- 

 line, 6 X 4 /a; stem 2-5-5 cm. long, very slender, with a tawny 

 or rufescent tinge, base with pale down, rooting. 



On rotten logs. Forest of Tehawera, Northern Island, 

 New Zealand. 



Solitary, or frequently 2-5 plants springing in a caespi- 

 tose manner. Eigid when dry. Not a typical Lentinus, on 

 account of the entire edge of the gills. 



35. Lenzites, Fries. 



Pileus corky, coriaceous, growing horizontally, sessile and 

 attached by a broad base behind ; gills coriaceous, elastic, 

 radiating from the pomt of attachment of the pileus, edge 

 sharp, entire ; spores white. 



Lenzites, Fries, Epicr., p. 403. 



Allied to Trameies and Dcedalea, but differs in the gills 

 remaining free from each other, and not anastomosing or 

 connected by transverse bars to form elongated pores. Len- 

 timis differs in the serrated margin of the gills. Growing on 

 wood. 



129. Lenzites repanda, Fries, Epicr., p. 404; Flora N.Z., li., 

 p. 177; Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, p. 606; Sacc, Syll. v., no. 2688; 

 Austr. Fung., p. 103. 



Pileus attached laterally, horizontal, thin, sessile but con- 

 tracted at the point of attachment into a very short thickened 

 stem -like base, irregularly reniform, margin often lobed or 

 wavy, almost plane, glabrous, with raised concentric zones, 



