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age a fusoons tomentnm appears about the base and sometimes 

 extends till it covers the whole surface. The flesh is rather 

 thick, tough and flexible, and has a hot peppery taste. The 

 edges of the lamellae are dentate rather than lacerate. Some- 

 times the pilei are clustered or imbricated. 



Lenzites betulina radiata n. var. 



Pileus thin, about 1 line thick, 1.5-3 inches broad, coriaceous, 

 velvety hairy, narrowly multizonate, beautifully radiate stri- 

 ate, brown, substance white; lamellae unequal, occasionally 

 forked, not anastomosing, smoky white or brownish. Dead 

 trunks of beech. Hague. September. 



The radiate striate appearance of the surface of the pileus is 

 due to a linear arrangement of minute tufts of hairs radiating 

 from the base to the margin. In the description of the species 

 the lamellae are said to anastomose, but in this variety they do 

 not, and in most American specimens that I have seen and that 

 have been referred to this species, the lamellae are simple or 

 occasionally branched. The species must be very variable if 

 reliance is to be placed on the illustrations of it by European 

 authors. Schaeffer's table 57 represents a thin nearly plane 

 pale form with lamellae irregularly branched and slightly anas- 

 tomosing, Berkeley's Outlines t. 15 f. 3 shows a thick triquetrous 

 form with lamellae abundantly anastomosing, and Cooke's ITVus- 

 trations of British fungi t. 1145 A indicates a thin brown zonate 

 hairy pileus with white lamellae sparingly forked but not anas- 

 tomosing. This corresponds well to our common American 

 form except in the white color of the lamellae. 



Hypholoma aggregatum sericeum n. var. 

 About old stumps in woods. North Bolton. September. 

 This variety differs from the typical form of the species in its 

 larger size and in having the pileus silky fibrillose and destitute 

 of spots or scales. For a more full description see the part of 

 this report devoted to edible fungi. 



