No. 3.] [September, 1872. 



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A MONTHLY EECORD OF CRYPTOGAMIC BOTANY, 

 AND ITS LITERATURE. 



NOTICES OF NORTH AMERICAN FUNGI. 



By the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A., F.L.S. 



It is proposed in this and future papers to continue what was 

 already begun in the " Annals of Natural History" for December, 

 1853, and October, 1859. Of species already described only the 

 more rare will be noticed, of all undescribed species the characters 

 will be given. Specimens of many have been published without 

 characters by Mr. H. W. Ravenel in his ' ; Fungi Caroliniani." Some 

 have already been described in my Decades of Fungi contained in 

 Sir W. J. Hooker's " London Journal of Botany " and the " Kew 

 Garden Miscellany," and of these the characters will be given, as 

 the works may not be readily accessible. The numbers will be 

 continued from the Paper of 1859. The cyphers following the 

 descriptive characters are those of an enormous mass of Fungi, 

 amounting to more than six thousand numbers, forwarded to me 

 from time to time by the late Dr. Curtis. 



101. Lentinus omphalodes. Berk. $ Curt. — Pileoinfundibuliformi, 

 tenui ; stipitegracili, sursum incrassato, basi fibrilloso spongiosoque ; 

 lamellis integris, angustis, decurrentibus. No. 3G24. Pennsyl- 

 vania, Dr. Michener. 



Pileus -J- in. across, infundibuliform, thin; stem 1-J in. high, 1 

 line thick, slender, incrassated upwards, fibrillose and spongy at 

 the base ; gills entire, narrow, decurrent. 



102. Lentinus Micheneri. B. $ C— Pileo umbilicato, ochraceo, 

 glabro ; margine lobato ; stipite basi spongioso, umbrino ; lamellis 

 acie serrulatis. No. 3962. Penns. Dr. Michener. 



Pileus \\ in. across, umbilicate, ochraceous, smooth, margin 

 lobed ; stem 1 in. high about \ in. thick, spongy at the' base, 

 umber; margin of the gills serrated. 



103. Lentinus hsematopus. B.— Pileo umbilicato depressove, 

 ochraceo, glaberrimo ; stipite brevissimo, cruento ; lamellis decur- 

 rentibus, margine laceratis. N. America, locality unknown. 



Pileus 1^-lf in. across, umbilicate or depressed, ochraceous, quite 

 smooth ; stem 1-2 lines high, blood red, almost laccate at the 

 base, \ in. thick ; gills decurrent, margin lacerated. 



104. Lentinus pallidus. B. <L- C- Pileo convcxo-pkuio, margine 



