Lentinus. Ill 



LENTINUS, Fr. 

 A. MESOPODES. Pileus subentire ; stem distinct. 



tigrinus, Fr. P. 3 7 cm. orbicular, umbil. whitish, with blackish 

 innate scales ; g. very narrow, tinged yellow ; s. 3 5 cm. slender, 

 squamulose ; sp. 7 x 3'5. 



Dunalii, Fr. P. umbil. deformed, pallid with spot-like adpressed 

 scales which disappear; g. crowded, pallid; s. 1'5 2 cm. rather 

 silky; sp. . 



lepideus, Fr. P. 5 7 cm. tough, depr. irreg. pale ochre breaking 

 up into darker spot-like scales ; g. sinuato-decur. broad, whitish ; s. 

 2 3 cm. stout, rooting, tomentosely squamulose; sp. 7x3. (10 14 

 x 6 Sacc.) 



var. contiguus, Fr. P. thinner, plano-depr. and with the slender 

 stem, even. 



[gallicus, Q. P. ivory colour with tawny lilac flecks, then areo- 

 late ; s. pubescent, white, apex sulcate, then torn into scales, flesh 

 coloured ; g. white, decur. in lines ; sp. 10 12 long. 



[sitaneus, Fr. P. elastic, convex, unequal, grey, fibrillosely scaly ; 

 g. deeply decur. base anastomosing ; s. firm, curved, fibrillose. 



[degener, Kalchb. P. hemispher. exp. ochre with tawny scales ; 

 g. very narrow, anastomosing ; s. stout, scaly, base blackish. 



[contortus, Fr. P. orbicular, umbil. tawny rufescent with darker 

 scales ; g. crowded, subdecur. ; s. twisted, subsulcate, squamulose. 



[Queletii, Schulz. P. at first regular, edge incurved, umber, 

 then depr. edge wavy and split, and becoming pale or almost white, 

 scaly ; g. pale ochre, edge torn ; s. branched, excentric, colour of p. 

 squamulose ; sp. 7 8 x 3. 



* * Pileus villose or pulverulent. 



leontopodius, Schulz. P. 7 16 cm. tough, irreg. slightly tomen- 

 tose, disc depr. tan, edge bent down, lobed ; g. decur. connected by 

 veins, sides rugose ; s. 6 9 cm. stout, woody, pulverulent, tan, base 

 blackish; sp. 12 15 long. 



[domesticus, Karst. Very large. P. tough, edge thin, subin- 

 fundib. oblique, irregular, cuticle broken up into darker adpressed 

 revolute scales, rusty; g. deeply decur. toothed, narrowed at both 

 ends, very broad, pale tawny rusty then reddish ; s. excentric, solid, 

 rusty, squamulose ; sp. 3 5 x 2 3. 



[hornotinus, Fr. P. deformed, pulverulent, grey; g. crowded, 

 white ; s. caespitosely branched, unequal, rather woody. 



[pulverulentus, Scop. P. tough, convex, yellow, white-pulveru- 

 lent ; g. toothed, white ; s. stout, equal, rigid, with white powder. 



