HTMENOIIYCETES. 



lG-1 M. Vaillantii. Fries. 1. i. a Hue. 



Pileus white ; gills rather thick, sub-distant, adnatodecurrcnt ; 

 stem pale, darker below. Bromborough Wood, on fallen twij^a 

 amongst moss. 



165 M. EAMEALis. Bull. 1. \. i line. 



Pileus nearly j^lane, wrinkled, cream-coloured ; stem pale. Very 

 common on sticks in moist i^laces. 



Sub-genus MYC^NA. 



166 M. ANDRosACEus. L. 1 — 3. i. 1 Hue. 



Pileus the colour of a faded oak leaf; gills resembling veins ; 

 stem tough, black. On leaves, especially oak loaves. Knowsley,' 

 Eastham. Very abundant in a plantation on the private road 

 to otourton. 



Gemis XII. LENTINUS. 



107 L. COCHLEATUS. Pei'S. 1 — li. 1 2. i. 



Densely tufted, colour of pie-crust, darker and redder with 

 age. Pilei seldom entire, two or three springing from the same 

 stem, and overlapping each other like the petals of a flower, 

 surface rough with prickly pimples ; gills decurrent to the 

 base of the curved stem on which they are confluent in groups, 

 forming a strongly fluted surface ; substance rather firm, corky 

 when dry. A beautiful and rare species. Found covering a 

 stump in Acorn-field Wood. October 1857. 



Genus XIII. PANUS. 



108 P. coNCHATus. Fries. 



Stem hardly any ; Pileus 3 broad, 4 from base to tip. Pilous 

 thin, tough, of even thickness throughout ; flesh-colour ; gills 

 distant, quite simple. On a stump in a timber-yard, Bold 

 October, 1857. 



109 P. 8TYPTICUS. Bull. i. 1—1^. 2 lines. 



Pilous thin, dry, tough, subinfundibuliform, rarely equal, colour 

 of Nankin ; gills close, nearly the same colour as the pileus ; 

 tufted or subimbricated. Spores oblong. -(lUOU. On fallen 

 trees, Bold, Ilalsiicad, Kastham, &c. 



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