LENTINUS 539 



1778. L. suffrutescens (Brot.) Fr. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. xvi (1900), 

 t. 3 and 4. Suffrutescens, arborescent. 



P. 4-8 cm., whitish cream colour, fleshy, compact, conical, convex, 

 umbonate, disc covered with reddish brown squamules, then depressed 

 and infundibuliform; margin often revolute. St. 7-11 cm. x 7-9 mm., 

 concolorous, covered with reddish brown scales (which sometimes pro- 

 ject) in the lower half or up to the sulcate apex, equal, or more or less 

 bulbose at the base, slightly incurved, strongly flexuose, or twisted 

 in abnormal specimens. Gills white, then yellowish, deeply decurrent, . 

 crowded, serrate. Flesh white. Spores white, elliptic cylindrical, 

 7-5 x 2-5/i. Squared wood in cellars. Nov. Feb. Rare, (v.v.) 



***P. smooth. 



1779. L. umbellatus Fr. Umbellatus, like a sunshade. 

 Very much branched, fleshy coriaceous, tough. Pileoli very 



numerous, 1-5-2-5 cm., becoming yellowish cinereous, entire, umbilicate. 

 St. 5-9 cm. x 3-8 mm., white, caespitosely connate at the base, branched, 

 each branch giving rise to a separate p., sulcate. Gills white, deeply 

 decurrent, very narrow, I mm., minutely serrated, crowded. Flesh 

 white. Spores white, globose, 4-5 ju,, with a large central gutta. Smell 

 and taste pleasant. Old stumps. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1780. L. cochleatus (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1093, t. 1142, fig. A. 



/eo^Xta?, a snail with a spiral shell. 



P. 2-5-9 cm., flesh colour, becoming pale, somewhat tan, fleshy pliant, 

 thin, commonly excentric, imbricated, very unequal, somewhat lobed 

 or contorted, sometimes plane, sometimes infundibulif orm-umbilicate. 

 St. 3-9 x -51-5 cm., flesh colour, rufous fuscous downwards, firm, 

 sometimes central, sometimes wholly lateral, sulcate, often connate 

 at the base. Gills white flesh colour, decurrent, crowded, serrated. 

 Flesh pinkish. Spores white, globose, 5-6/z, with a large central 

 gutta. Cystidia none. Smell very pleasant, of anise, or tonquin bean. 

 Taste mild. Edible. Stumps. July Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



II. Dimidiate, sessile, or furnished with a sublateral stem. 



1781. L. scoticus B. & Br. Cke. Illus. no. 1094, t. 1143. 



Scoticus, Scottish. 



P. 14 cm., pallid, then brownish, hygrophanous, umbilicate, some- 

 times infundibuliform, at length flattened; extremely variable in 

 form, either quite stemless and reniform, or variously stipitate, lobed 

 at the margin and sinuate, or plicate. St. -5-5 cm. x 2-3 mm., 

 darker, cylindrical, pulverulent, springing from a brown, fibrillose 

 mycelium. Gills pallid, decurrent when the stem is developed, rather 

 distant, strongly toothed, and irregularly torn. Spores white, elliptical, 

 5-6 x 4/u,. On decayed Ulex, birch, and spruce. Nov. Jan. Rare. 

 (v.v.) 



