116 Xerotus Lenzites. 



XEROTUS, Fr. 



degener, Fr. P. 1'5 2'5 cm. thin, plano-infundib. edge entire, 

 greyish bay, slightly zoned when moist ; g. distant, decur. simple or 

 dichot. greyish ; s. 1 2 cm. brown with white down. 



A very uncertain sp. probably some Clitocybe. Quelet says it is 

 an old condition of Cantharellus carbonarius. 



[romanus, Fr. P. glabrous, thin, exp. umbil. even, brownish, edge 

 lobed ; g. thick, crisped, rufescent ; s. rigid, fistulose, black. 



LENZITES, Fr. 



* Growing on 



[ albida, Fr. P. corky, soft, plane, zoneless, whitish, tornentose ; 

 g. thin, dichot. anastomosing, entire, whitish. Effuso-reflexed. 



betulina, Fr. P. 6 10 cm. firm, long, 2 5 cm. broad, broadly 

 attached, flesh 4 6 mm. thick, pallid or tinged brown, rather zoned, 

 tomentose ; g. thin, forked, whitish ; sp. 4 x 2. 



iiaccida, Fr. P. 3 6 cm. flaccid, more or less flabelliform, thin, 

 strigose, zoned, pallid ; g. broad, crowded, unequally branched, 

 whitish ; sp. 7 x 5. 



[variegata, Fr. P. rigid, plane, velvety, zoned with different 

 colour, edge whitish ; g. broad, thickish, anastomosing, white, edge 

 torn. 



Habit and colour of Poly, versicolor. 



[trabea, Fr. P. coriaceous, flattened, rugulose, almost glabrous, 

 brownish ; g. straight, simple and forked, freely anastomosing, entire, 

 reddish. 



Habit of Dedaelea quercina but thinner. 



[cinnamomea, Fr. P. coriaceous, flattened, firm, downy, con- 

 centrically sulcate, inside and out cinnamon ; g. rather distant, 

 straight, unequal, almost simple, narrow, entire, colour of p. 



var. crocata, Sacc. P. strigosely velvety, sulcate, brown ; g. 

 yellow, edge unequal, paler, trama bright saffron. 



[tricolor, Fr. P. corky, plane, base gibbous, scabrid, zoned and 

 radiately rugulose, yellow then dingy ; g. thin, distant, forked, anas- 

 tomosing behind, citrin then umber. 



* * Growing on Gymnosperms. 



sepiaria, Fr. P. 3 9 cm. long, hard, zoned, bay, strigose, rough ; 

 g. branched, anastomosing, yellowish ; sp. 5 x 4. 



abietina, Fr. P. 3 12 cm. effuso-reflexed, umber-tomentose 

 then nearly glabrous, hoary ; g. decur. simple, unequal, with white 

 meal ; sp. 7 8 x 4. 



