316 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



not pervious, glabrous, flesh-colour, becoming pale and some- 

 what tan-colour. Gills decurrent, crowded, serrate, whitish 

 with a tinge of flesh-colour. (Fries.) 



Very much tufted. Several stems are confluent in such a 

 way as to make it doubtful whether the several pilei are 

 really distinct, or are only lobes of one large one, the circle 

 of the gills being always incomplete on the side of the 

 common centre, the whole forming a lobed funnel with 

 deflected edges. The surface is rough, with prominent 

 minute ribs or prickles (as expressed by Sowerby's figure), 

 pale rufescent, often powdered with the white sporules, 

 11^ in. broad. 



Sometimes the surface is more even, but still somewhat 

 sculptured so as to be rough with raised lines. Stem com- 

 pound, strongly ribbed and sulcate, the ribs being continua- 

 tions of the serrated paler decurrent gills. At first the 

 pileus and gills are tender, stem firm and leathery. Odour 

 agreeable. (Berk.) 



II. PLEUEOTI. 



Lentinus Scoticus. B. & Br. 



Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh thin, soft, very variable, plane, 

 umbilicate, or infundibuliform, smooth, pallid or brownish, 

 hygrophanous; stem excentric or lateral, variable darker 

 than the pileus, pulverulent, springing from a branched, 

 brown mycelium ; gills decurrent when the stem is present, 

 rather distant, strongly toothed, pallid; spores elliptical, 

 smooth, 5-6 X 4 /A. 



Lentinus Scoticus, Berk. & Broome, Ann. Nat. Hist., no. 

 1423; Cke., Hdbk., p. 356; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1143. 



On furze, birch, &c. 



Inodorous, or, at any rate, without any odour of aniseed ; 

 extremely variable ; pileus ^-l in. broad, smooth, hygro- 

 phanous, pallid, at length brownish; either quite stemless 

 and reniform, or variously stipitate, solitary or caespitose, 

 sometimes deeply umbilicate, lobed at the margin and 

 sinuate or plicate ; stem, when present, varying from 2 lines 

 to as many inches; gills rather distant, strongly toothed, 

 decurrent when the stem is developed. Very rarely two 



