540 LENTINUS 



1782. L. fimbriatus Currey. Cke. Illus. no. 1095, t. 1148, fig. A. 



Fimbriatus, fringed. 



P. 1-2-5 cm., fawn colour, covered with darker floccose scales, some- 

 what dimidiate, subcoriaceous, thin, depressed, sometimes very much 

 so and almost cyathiform; margin slightly involute, almost strigose. 

 St. 4-6 x 23 mm., concolorous with the gills, or paler, lateral, rough 

 with somewhat refiexed scales; apex with a delicate, white, fimbriate 

 collar or fringe when young. Gills pale brown, descending, irregularly 

 serrated and torn at the margin. On a stump standing in a pond. 

 Sept. Kare. 



1783. L. vulpinus (Sow.) Fr. (= Lentinus castoreus Fr. sec. Quel.) 

 Fr. Icon. t. 176, fig. 1. Vulpinus, foxy. 



Sessile, many times imbricated. Pilei tan, fleshy, very pliant, reni- 

 form-conchate, very convex ; margin deflexed and almost perpendicular, 

 hence concave beneath; surface wholly peculiar, with raised longi- 

 tudinal ribs, which are broken up into scales or fibrous teeth towards the 

 thin, incurved, fuscescent margin, hence entirely rough and corrugated, 

 velvety tomentose, and white-warty behind. Gills whitish, then reddish, 

 extended to the base, broad, crowded, torn into teeth. Flesh white. 

 Spores white, "somewhat needle-shaped, 9-10 x 1-5/t" Rick. Smell 

 none or strong of field mint. Trunks, and stumps. March Oct. Rare. 



1784. L. auricula Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 175, fig. 2. Auricula, the ear. 

 White, becoming tinged with yellow when old, caespitosely imbricate. 



P. 2-4 cm., fleshy-coriaceous, ear-shaped, dimidiate, oblong, ascending, 

 sessile, cucullately-revolute beneath. Gills very narrow, 1 mm. wide, 

 very closely crenulately-serrated, decurrent to the base, and separate. 

 Flesh white. Spores white, globose, 3-4(4, with a large central gutta. 

 Lime stumps. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1785. L. flabelliformis (Bolt.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1095, t. 1148, fig. B. 



Flabelliformis, fan-shaped. 



Subsessile. P. 2-3 cm., pallid fawn colour, membranaceous, pliant, 

 reniform, plane, even; margin fimbriato-t oot hed. St. commonly rudi- 

 mentary, 4-6 mm. long. Gills whitish, or pallid, broad, somewhat 

 distant, rather thick, torn into teeth at the edge. Spores white, 

 "cylindrical, 8-9 x 2-2-5/x" Rick, "minutely echinulate" Quel. On 

 stumps. Feb. Rare. 



CANTHARELLINEAE. 



Hymenium inseparable from the pileus, spread over the surface of 

 narrow, obtuse veins, gills, or folds, or quite smooth. \ .*' 



CANTHARELLACEAE. 

 Same characters as the suborder. 



