Massee. — On the Fungus Flora of Neto Zealand. 345 



gills deeply decurrent and running as very fine lines almost 

 to the base of the stem, thin, narrow, rather crowded ; spores 

 7 X 4/x ; stem 2-4 cm. high, up to 8 mm. thick, slightly nar- 

 rowed downwards. 



On logs, or on the ground, springing from buried wood. 

 New Zealand. Australia. 



Eemarkable for being very luminous at night. Tufted and 

 often irregular ; variable in size. 



122. Panus tahitensis, Reichardt, Novara Exped., p. 142; 

 Sacc, Syll. v., no. 2555. 



Pileus reniform, plano-convex, quite glabrous, margin quite 

 entire, incurved, base depressed, whitish, then tan-colour, coria- 

 ceous and tough, 6-7 cm. broad; gills not decurrent, firm, 

 crowded, ochraceous-white, then becoming brownish ; spores 

 elliptical, hyaline, smooth, 6-7 /x long ; stem distinctly lateral, 

 very short, scarcely 2 mm. long. 



On rotten trunks, in woods. Dannevirke, New Zealand. 

 Island of Tahiti. 



123. Panus stij^ticus, Fries, Epicr., p. 399; Flora N.Z., ii., 

 p. 176; Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, p. 605; Massee, Brit. Fung.- 

 Flora, ii., p. 309; Austr. Fung., p. 97; Sacc, Syll. v., 

 no. 2557. 



Imbricated, fixed laterally, horizontal, thin, flexible, reni- 

 form, margin usually entire, cuticle broken up into minute 

 scurfy scales, cinnamon, then yellowish-buff, 1-5-3 cm. across ; 

 gills rather crowded and narrow, connected by thin transverse 

 ridges, margin entire ; spores hyaline, 3x2^; stem dis- 

 tinctly lateral, compressed, very short. Taste hot and pun- 

 gent. 



On decaying trunks, stumps, &e. Northern Island, New 

 Zealand. Australia, Europe, United States. 



Eecognised by the densely crowded imbricated habit, cin- 

 namon-colour of every part, and the hot taste. 



34. Lentinus, Fries. 



Pileus coriaceous, tough, hard and dry when old ; gills dry, 

 tough, thin, margin thin, minutely toothed or eroded, more 

 or less decurrent ; stem central, excentric, or lateral ; 

 spores white. 



Lentinus, Fries, Epicr., p. 45. 



Allied to Panus, but readily distinguished from this and 

 every other genus of dry coriaceous species by having the 

 margin of the gills minutely toothed or notched. Always on 

 wood, branches, &c. 



