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124. Lentiu'us novcE-zelandice, Berk., Flora N.Z., ii., p. 176 ; 

 Hdbk. N.Z. Flora, p. 605 ; Sacc, Syll. v., no. 2481. 

 Sessile, attached by a narrowed base, fan-shaped, reniform 



or suborbicular, thin and flexible, bay-brown, clothed behind 

 with short velvety olive down, about 2-5 cm. long and broad; 

 gills decurrent behind, narrow, edge thin and torn, coloured 

 like the pileus. 



On dead wood. New Zealand. 



Closely resembling Lentinus castoreus, but smaller, and 

 with narrower gills. There is no specimen in Berkeley's her- 

 barium. 



125. Leiitinns castoreus, Fries, Epicr., p. 305; Austr. Fung., 

 p. 95; Sacc, Syll. v., no. 2485. 



Imbricated, sessile but narrowed behind into a more or less 

 pronounced stem-like base, the component pilei narrowly fan- 

 shaped or tongue-shaped, margin narrowly incurved, entire 

 or wavy ; sometimes the pelei are resupinate, margin free all 

 round, and the gills radiating from the centre, at others curled 

 to form a funnel-shaped pileus, flexible, even or wrinkled, 

 rufous, then yellowish-tawny, 3-12 cm. long ; gills crowded, 

 rather narrow, margin irregular, brownish ; spoies hyaline, 

 subglobose, 4 /a. 



On logs, &c. Northern Island, New Zealand. Europe, 

 Cuba, United States. 



Very variable in form and size. The principal distinctive 

 features are the elongated pilei, tan colour, and glabrous 

 pileus. The figure of this species by Fries (Icones, pi. 175, 

 f. 3) is 14 cm. broad and the gills 1 cm. broad ; it is, however, 

 usually smaller. 



126. Lentinus hepatotrichus , Berk., Flor. Tasm., p. 249, 

 pi. clxxxi., fig. 9 (1860); Cke., Austr. Fung., p. 95; 

 Sacc, Syll. v., no. 2490. 



Pileus sessile, attached laterally, hoof-shaped, horizontal, 

 1-5-2 cm. broad, somewhat shaggy or strigose at the point of 

 attachment, becoming smooth towards the margin, liver- 

 colour or sometimes yellowish ; gills radiating from the 

 point of attachment, broad, rather distant, pallid, margin 

 minutely toothed ; spores elliptical, smooth, pallid, 7 X 5/Lt. 



On wood and bark. New Zealand. Tasmania. 



Distinguished by the dark colour of the pileus and the 

 broad gills having the margin minutely crenulated. 



127. Lentinus lepideus, Fries, Epicr., p. 390; Austr. Fung., 

 p. 91 ; Sacc, Syll. v., no. 2351. 



Pileus fleshy, tough, convex, then depressed and unequal, 

 pale dingy-ochraceous, becoming broken up into darker spot- 



