538 LENTINUS 



Gills whitish, or yellowish, sinuate, decurrent by a tooth, broad, trans- 

 versely striate, serrate. Flesh white, pliant. Spores white, elliptical, 

 10-11 x 5ju,, 1-3-guttulate. Cystidia none. Smell pleasant. On pine 

 stumps, railway sleepers and paving blocks. March Oct. Not un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



var. contiguus Fr. Contiguus, neighbouring. 



Differs from the type in being entirely white and destitute of scales 

 both on the pileus and stem. 



**P. villose, or pulverulent. 



1775. L. leontopodius Schulz. Kalchbr. Icon. t. 28. 



Xeav, a lion; TTOV<;, foot. 



P. 7-20 cm., tan-clay-colour, rather darker towards the margin, 

 fleshy, compact, tough, irregular, very excentric, or almost lateral, 

 broadly umbilicate; margin arched and bent downwards, more or less 

 lobed, distinctly tomentose. St. 7-10 x 2-5-3 cm., pale chestnut, blackish 

 downwards, curved and ascending, hard, tough, subequal, pulveru- 

 lently furfur aceous, or tomentose. Gills pale reddish ochraceous, deeply 

 decurrent, especially on the lower side of the stem, 6-8 mm. wide, 

 connected by veins, wrinkled at the sides; edge serrated, darker. 

 Flesh white. Spores white, "cylindrical, obliquely apiculate, 12-15/M 

 long" Massee. Smell very pleasant. Taste sweet, pleasant. On de- 

 cayed willow. Sept. Oct. Eare. 



1776. L. pulverulentus (Scop.) Fr. Pulverukntus, dusty. 

 P. yellow, mealy with white dust, fleshy-pliant, convex. St. mealy 



with white dust, elongated, stout, equal, rigid. Gills white, slightly 

 toothed. Trunks. Caespitose. Oct. Rare 1 . 



1777. L. adhaerens (A. & S.) Fr. (= Lentinus resinaceus Trog sec. 

 Quel.) Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 131. Adhaerens, sticking to. 



P. 8-13 cm., lurid whitish, then hazel, becoming fuscous, fleshy pliant, 

 somewhat irregular, convexo-subcampanulate, then depressed and 

 infundibuliform, pulverulently villose, covered with a resinous, amber 

 coloured gluten. St. 2-5 cm. x 5-12 mm., concolorous, covered with a 

 resinous gluten, rooting, subequal, pulverulently tomentose. Gills white, 

 then yellowish, sinuato-decurrent, somewhat crowded; edge serrate, 

 glutinous. Flesh white. Spores white, "oblong cylindrical, 7-10 x 

 2-5-3 ft" Bres. Smell pleasant, fragrant. Taste somewhat bitter and 

 astringent. Coniferous woods. Autumn Spring. Rare. 



1 Berkeley and Broome describe P. 5 cm., fuliginous, at first infundibuliform 

 then lateral, flabelliform, floccoso-pulverulent with little umber particles. St. 

 7-5 cm. at length smooth. Gills pallid, deeply decurrent, thick, edge crenulate 

 but not torn. 



