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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Lenzites scparia. Pr. 

 The Chocolate Lenzites. 



The pileus is corky, leathery shells, with the upper surface marked with rough 

 zones of various shades of brown ; margin yellowish. 



The gills are rather thick, branched, one running into another; yellowish. 

 Stem obsolete. Growing on limbs and branches, especially of the fir tree. 



Lenzites flaccida. Fr. 



Flaccid Lenzjtes. 



Flaccida means limp, flaccid. Pileus is coriaceous, thin, flaccid, unequal, 

 hairy, zoned, pallid, more or less flabelliform, imbricated. 



The gills are broad, crowded, 

 straight, unequal, branched, 

 white, becoming pallid. Spores 

 are 5x7. 



This is a very attractive plant 

 and quite common. It runs al- 

 most imperceptibly into Lenzites 

 betulina. It is found on stumps 

 and trunks. 



Lenzites vialis. Pk. 



Pileus is corky, almost woody, 

 firm, zoned. 



Gills are thick, firm, serpentine. 

 Stem, none. 



Figure 186. Lenzites flaccida. Two-thirds natural size. 



Schizophyllum* Fr, 



Schizophyllum is from two Greek words, meaning to split, and a leaf. 



The pileus is fleshy and arid. The gills are corky, fan-like, branched, united 

 above by the tomentose pellicle, bifid, split longitudinally at the edge. The spores 

 somewhat round and white. 



The two lips of the split ^(b^ of the gills are commonly revolute. This genus 

 is far removed from the type of Agaricini. It grows on wood and is very common. 

 Stevenson. 



