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695. Schizophyllum commune. Fr. " Common ScMzophyllum." 



Pileus adnate behind, somewhat extended, simple, and lobed ; 

 gills grey, then brownish, purple, villous, edge revoliite. — Fr. 

 Epicr.p. 4.0^. Greu.t.61. Krombh.t. 4:,f. 14.-lCj. Batsch.f.UQ. 

 BulLt.S4.6, oSlJ.l. Sow. 1. 183. Buxb.v. t.lj.l. Eng.Fl.y. 

 p. 130. Gard. Chron. 1860, p. 1151. 



On dead wood. [New Orleans, U. S., &c.] 



Pileus 1-1 J in. broad, sessile or with a short lateral stem, sometimes resn- 

 pinate, and supported by a stem-like process arising from the centre of the 

 pileus, white or greyish, zoned, tomentose ; margin even or variously lobed 

 and split ; gills reddish-brown or whitish, flabelliform, apparently but not 

 truly forked, the inner barren face villous with the flocci, of which the sub- 

 stance of the pileus is composed, the outer surface alone bearing spores. 

 Cosmopolitan. — M. J. B. Spores very small, almost globular, •0001 in. dia- 

 meter. (Fig, 60, nat. size.) 



Gen. 18. 



LENZZTES, Fr. Gen. Hymen. 



Fig. 61. 



Spores white ; pileus coriaceous, 

 dimidiate, sessile ; gills coriaceous, 

 firm, unequal, simple, or branched, 

 and anastomosing behind, edge 

 obtuse or acute ; trama floccose ; 

 often spuriously porous. 



{Fig. 61.) 



Hab . On stumps, rails, etc. 



Chiefly tropical, where the species be- 

 come woody, with us they are only cori- 

 aceous. Allied to Traraetes SLudDcedalea, 

 amongst the Polyjporei. 



696. 



Lenzites betulina. Fr. " Birch Lenzites." 



Pileus between corky and coriaceous, firm, obsoletely zoned, 

 tomentose, pallid ; margin of the same colour ; gills straight, 

 somewhat branched, anastomosing, pallid. — Fr. Epicr. p. 405. 

 Fl. Dan. 1. 1555. Soiv. 1. 182. Berk. Outl. 1. 15,/. 3. Dcedalea be- 

 tulina^ Eng. Fl. v. p. 131. 



On stumps, &c. Common. [Cincinnati, U. S.] 



Perennial. Pileus 2-4 in. broad, coriaceous, sessile, dimidiate, deeply 

 grooved concentrically, and clothed with dense pubescence or coarse velvety 

 down, greyish or pale, often green with minute Alga. Gills straight, tan- 

 coloured, not much branched or anastomosing, their margin at length torn. 

 — M, J. B. (Fig. 61, reduced.) 



