612 IRPEX. LENZITES 



4-5 x 3-3-5/x, 1-guttulate. Stumps, dead branches, and leaves. Jan. 

 Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



2057. I. deformis Fr. Deformis, misshapen. 

 R. 5-15 cm., whitish, effused, adnate; margin byssoid, pubescent. 



Teeth concolorous, 2-4 mm. long, subulate, arising from a minutely 

 porous base, somewhat digitato-incised, and often torn into shreds 

 almost to the base. Flesh concolorous, crustaceous, thin. Spores white, 

 "ovoid, punctate, 10/i" Quel. Oak branches, and cherry. Sept. 

 Feb. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2058. I. carneus Fr. (= Phlebia merismoides Fr. sec. Quel.) 



Carneus, flesh colour. 



R. 2-5-7-5 cm., reddish, effused, adnate. Teeth concolorous, subu- 

 late, obtuse, entire, united at the base. Flesh cartilaginous, gela- 

 tinous, thin. Wood, and bark. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



Fr. 



(Harold Othmar Lenz, a German botanist.) 



Pileus corky, or coriaceous, dimidiate, or resupinate, sessile. Gills 

 coriaceous, often anastomosing at the base, homogeneous with the sub- 

 stance of the pileus, and not forming a distinct layer. Flesh white, 

 or coloured. Spores white, elliptical, subglobose, cylindrical, or oblong- 

 elliptical, smooth. Cystidia sparse, or none. Growing on wood ; often 

 imbricate. 



*Growing on wood of deciduous trees. 



2059. L. betulina (Linn.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 1100, t. 1145, fig. A. 



Betulina, of the birch. 



P. 2-5-10 cm., whitish grey, becoming pale, corky coriaceous, firm, 

 rigid, dimidiate, sessile, becoming plane, sometimes resupinate, tomen- 

 tose, commonly obsoletely zoned, zones sometimes darker. Gills dingy 

 white, reaching the base, straight, simple, or branched, often anasto- 

 mosing, edge acute. Flesh white, floccose. Spores white, "globose or 

 elliptic-spheric, 5-6/u" Karst. On stumps, trunks, posts, and rails, 

 especially birch. Jan. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



2060. L. flaccida (Bull.) Fr. Flaccida, flabby. 

 P. 10-^30 cm., whitish, then dingy, with quite concolorous zones, 



coriaceous, thin, scarcely 2 mm. thick, unequal, dimidiate, sessile, 

 easily bent, strigosely hairy. Gills shining white, becoming pale, thick, 

 firm, straight, very broad, simple, or branched at the base, with 

 shorter ones intermixed. Spores "white, 12/u," Quel. On beech stumps. 

 Jan. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



