type of plant but much stronger, more hispid pileus. I have no specimen 

 of this. 



LENTINUS FASCIATUS. As to hairs same exactly as Lentinus 

 fulvus, but the color is light tawny, and it seems so different in this respect, 

 that on the color alone it may be maintained as different. Only known 

 from Australia, and called also by Berkeley Lentinus holopogonius. I have 

 a fine collection from an unknown correspondent in Australia. 



LENTINUS STRIGOSUS. This is .a frequent, American species and 

 the only one we have in this hirsute section, excepting- Lentinus velutinus 

 and Lentinus villosus, both of the extreme South. Lentinus strigosus 

 occurs as far North as Canada. In American mycology, although an evi- 

 dent mistake, this species passed for years as being Lentinus Lecomtei 

 and it is only recently that it has been called anything else. Years ago 

 having decided it could not possibly be Lentinus Lecomtei, I sent it to 

 Bresadola, who referred it to Panus rudis and this name has been lately 

 much used by myself and others in America. It is "Panus rudis" of West- 

 ern Europe, but why a Panus 1 can not explain. Surely it is the same 

 genus as the preceding species. It is the only Lentinus (of this hirsute 

 section) that grows in Europe and it occurs frequently only in the Western 

 Europe, particularly Hungary and Austria. That it is Lentinus strigosus 

 of Schweinitz there is no possible doubt. It is a plant of wide distribution. 

 I have it from Samoa, also Madagascar from Perrier de la Bathie, and have 

 referred here (with doubt) a collection from Albert Green, Australia, and 

 one from A. Yasuda, Japan. 



LENTINUS PRAERIGIDUS. This is a noteworthy species of the East, 

 quite frequent and very distinct from any species of the American tropics. 

 It has an even, minutely tomentose pileus, sometimes breaking into scales 

 when old, and very dark, rather broad, and distant gills. Berkeley called it 

 praerigidus, estriatus, and Thwaitesii. Currey called it Kurzianus and de- 

 termined it also as furfurosus of Fries (which I presume no one knows). 

 Leveille sent a specimen to Kew labeled polychrous, but his specimen at 

 Paris is not the same species. I have a specimen from S. Hutchings, 

 Bengal. The very dark color of the gills, which is the most salient char- 

 acter, is assumed in drying. When moistened they are a much lighter 

 brown. "Spores (secured in abundance from Mr. Hutchings's specimen when 

 received) are hyaline, cylindrical, straight, 3^ x 10 mic. 



LENTINUS SAJOR CA.IU. Pileus with a veil that often remains as a 

 ring at the base of the gills, hence it belongs to the "genus" Lentodium, 

 not in the sense of the man who made the genus Lentodium (Morgan) 

 for he had no such idea and would have resented being so misrepresented, 

 but in the perverted sense of the writer who used Morgan's generic name 

 as a convenient juggle. Lentinus Sajor Caju is a most abundant species 

 in Africa and in the East, but does not occur in the American tropics. -It 

 is the only foreign species known to me that has a ring. It is yellow, 

 always glabrous, with broad, rather distant, yellow gills. 



Rumphius gave a crude but evident figure of it with an indication 

 even of the scar left by the ring. Fries correctly interpreted Rumphius' 



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