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sulcate, smooth stem ; gills crowded, serrated, pinkish-wliite. — 

 Fr. Epicr.p. 394. Sow. 1. 168. BerJc. Outl. 1. 19,/. 4. E?ig. Fl. v. 

 p.m. Price J.12D. 



On trunks and the ground. Eare. [United States.] 



Yery much tufted ; several stems confluent, surface rougli with prominent 

 minute ribs or prickles, pale rufescent, often powdered with the w-hite spores, 

 1-1^ in, broad. Sometimes the surface is more even, but still somewhat 

 sculptured, so as to be rough with raised lines. Stem compound, strongly- 

 ribbed and sulcate, the ribs being continuations of the serrated paler decur- 

 rent gills. At first the pileus and gills are tender ; stem firm and leathery. 

 Odour agreeable. — J/. /• B. Spores almost globular, diameter "00015 in. 



687. Lentinus vulpinus. Fr. " Strong-scented Lentinus." 



Sessile, imbricated. Pileus fleshy, but tough, conchate, con- 

 nate behind, longitudinally rough, costate, corrugate or floccose, 

 tan-coloured; margin incurred, entire ; gills torn, white. — Fr. 

 Epicr.p. 396. Sow. t. 361. Fng.FL\.p.72. Kro7nbh.t.3,f.l6. 



Od stumps. Eare. [Cincinnati, U. S.] 



Pileus 1-2 in. long, ascending, obovato-spathulate ; margin involute, 

 fleshy, tongh. the outer surface cartilaginous, longitudinally lacunoie and 

 echinulate. reddish-buff", hoary with the round white spores, and within the 

 flesh is a line of the same substance parallel with the surface ; gills pale, 

 more or less notched and sinuate, broad, not forked. Stem obsolete. Smell 

 very strong and overpowering, somewhat resembling that of field mint.— 

 M. J. B, Spores almost globular, very small, '00000 in. diameter. 



688. Lentinus fimbriatus. Curr. " Fringed Lentinus." 



Pileus subdimidiate, subcoriaceous, depressed, fawn coloured, 

 covered with darker floccose scales ; margin slightly involute ; 

 stem lateral, squamulose ; gills serrated and torn, descending (not 

 decurrent), pale brown. — Linn. Trans. xxW. p. 152. t. 25./. 2. 



On a stump standing in a pond. Lewes. Sept., 1862. 



Pileus subdimidiate, subcoriaceous, thin (not fleshy) depressed, sometimes 

 very much so, and almost cyathiform. 5 to 1 in. wide, fawn coloured, covered 

 with floccose scales of a darker brown ; margin slightly involute, almost 

 strigose; stem lateral, from |- to 5 in. long, rough with somewhat reflexed 

 scales of the same colour as the gills, or rather paler ; gills pale brown, 

 irregularly serrate and lacerated at the margin, de.-cendirg, but not decur- 

 rent. In young specimens a delicate white fimbriate collar or fringe (the 

 remains of the ruptured veil) separates the gills from the stem. Pilei 2 or 

 3 together, one above another in an imbricated manner. Some of the pilei 

 tinged here and there with pink stains. 



689. Lentinus flabelliformis. Fr. <' Fan-like Lentinus." 



Subsessile. Pileus thin, tough, kidnej-sliaped, plane, smooth, 

 fawn coloured ; margin crenato-fimbriate ; gills broad, torn, 

 pallid.— i^r. Epicr.p, 395. Bolt. t. 157. Eng. Fl. v. p. 72. 



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