110 Rev. M. J. BERKELEY on Agaricus crinitus, 
where it is slightly incrassated, dark, and expands over the wood on which it grows, 
paler than the pileus and clothed with a little white silky meal, with a few very minute 
dark scales towards the base. Gills narrow, rather rigid, subochraceous, nearly entire, 
rather distant, slightly forked, glandular, decurrent and anastomosing behind. 
The fungus described by Fries as Ag. crinitus, Swartz, is a very distinct 
species, of which I have given a figure and description in the * Annals of 
Natural History; from an authentic specimen in the British Museum. It 
was supposed at the time that Swartz's name was correct, but on consulting 
the Linnean herbarium it appeared to be very different. I possess specimens 
from Brazil, and there is one in the herbarium of Mr. Edward Forster. It is 
distinguished at once by its very pale colour, fasciculate hairs and other pecu- 
liarities. This was stated in the second volume of Sir W. J. Hooker's * Lon- 
don Journal of Botany,’ p. 632, and the name of Lentinus Swartzii proposed 
for it. 
Of the synonyms cited by Linnzeus, that in Brown's * History of Jamaica,’ 
tab. 15. fig. 1, is a fair representation of the species. The plant of Plumier, 
tab. 168. fig. B, is clearly something of a totally different character. 
2. Lentinus TENER; pileo tenui regulari laté infundibuliformi repando cer- 
vino fibris fasciculatis subcrispis vestito subtüs sericeo-striato margine 
subsuleato, stipite gracili zequali pallido granulato-furfuraceo, lamellis 
subdistantibus pallido-ligneis opacis lato-denticulatis glandulosis decur- 
rentibus posticé vix anastomosantibus. (Tas. IX. fig. 2.) 
Lentinus tener, Klotzsch. Fries, Syn. Lent. p. 6; Epicrisis, p. 389. Berk. in 
Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. vol. ii. p. 632. 
Hab. On wood. Organ Mountains, Gardner; and according to Klotzsch, New Orleans. 
(Hook. Herb.) ‘ 
Pileus 21 inches across, regularly infundibuliform, with the border spreading, thin and 
` flexible, not at all rigid, fawn-coloured, darker in the centre, clothed with scattered 
fascicles of fibres, which are paler towards the margin ; these gradually fall off and 
expose the surface of the pileus, which is striate with innate fibres; margin sulcate, 
not involute. Stem nearly 11. inch high, more than a line thick, pale, smooth, with 
the exception of a few minute granular branny scales. Gills rather distant, decurrent, 
scarcely at all anastomosing at the base, broadly toothed, or rather incised, glandular, 
of a pallid wood colour, with a peculiar opake appearance. . 
