242 AGARICINI. 



On old stumps. Eare. [S. Carolina.] 



Pileus 2 in. broad, tliin, margin at length split ; stem 1-2 in. long, dirty- 

 white.— i'^/'/e.*. When fresh very tender and easily lacerated, when dry cori- 

 aceous, and the stem of a very firm and solid texture.— »SW. Spores "00013 

 X -00020 in. (F<^g' 56, reduced.) 



683. Lentinus Dunalii. Fr. "Dimal's Lentinus." 



Pileiis fleshy-coriaceous, thin, umbilicate, irregular, pallid ; 

 clothed with adpressed spot-like scales ; stem short, somewhat 

 silky; gills decurrent, crowded, pallid. — Fr. Ejncr.p.SdO. Bull, 

 ?. 36. Batt.t. 12, A. BerJc.Outl.t.l6,f.2. Eng.Fl.Y.p.68. 



On ash trees. Eare. 



Csespitose. Pilens 2 in. broad, more or less unequal, carnoso-coriaceous, 

 umbilicate; margin deflexed, sometimes variously split and sinuated, yellow- 

 white, with brownish rather close scales ; margin nearly smooth ; gills di- 

 chotomous, crenate, sinuated, subdecurrent ; stem 1 in. high, 3 lines thick, 

 tough, the lower part clothed with dark, nearly square, adpressed scales, the 

 upper half not scaly, white, resembling the under side of white kid leather. 

 Odour sub-acid, farinaceous. — M.J.B. 



684. Lentinus lepideus. Fr. " Scaly Lentinus." 



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

 pallid-ochraceous, broken up into darker spot-like scales ; stem 

 stout, rooting, tomentose or scaly ; gills sinuate, decurrent, broad, 

 torn, transversely striate, whitish. — Fr. Epicr. j;. 390. Schceff. t. 

 29, 30. Buxb. iv. t. 25. Sow. t. 382. Eng. Fl. v. p. 69. 



On stumps of firs. Bare. [United States.] 



Pileus 2-4 in. broad, convex or depressed, central or lateral ; stem short, 

 hard, very tender when fresh ; monstrous forms occur in dark situations, 

 with or without a pileus.— J/. /. B. Spores '0004 X '00023 in. 



685. Lentinus adhaer ens. Fr. " Pine- wood Lentinus." 



Pileus somewhat fleshy, tough, irregular, lacunose, subpulver- 

 ulent, dingy, palhd, glutinous, laccate, as well as the nearly hol- 

 low-rooting stem ; gills decurrent, forming lines on the stem, 

 very thin, torn, white. — Fr. Epicr. p. 391. With. iy.p. 160. 



In pine-woods. Doubtful. 



Small, unequal, taste at length astringent. Pileus convex, then somewhat 

 umbonate, at length depressed and infandibuliform. 



686. Lentinus cochleatus. Fr. "Shell Lentinus." 



Annual, tough, flaccid. Pileus fleshy, but tough, irregular, 

 somewhat lobed or contorted, rufescent, as well as the sohd, firm, 



