crude figure and his specimen is evidence at Kew. Klotzsch called the 

 plant Lentinus exilis and this name was generally used by both Berkeley 

 and Cooke, and many collections so labeled are at Kew. Currey called it 

 Lentinus irregularis. Leveille with his habitual inclination to call every- 

 thing a "new species" that he did not know, and he did not know many, 

 named it Lentinus dactyliophorus, which name has been mostly used at 

 Paris. Murrill elucidated the subject by referring exilis to an American 

 species (though it does not grow in America), Agaricus hirtus, described 

 as having a stipe "1-2 lines" (sic) long (one or two inches would more 

 nearly fit it), and surface "setoso-hirtus." The surface of Lentinus exilis 

 is always as smooth as a billard ball. Either Murrill made a very bad 

 guess or Fries gave a very bad description. I have a dozen or more col- 

 lections of this common species from the following correspondents: 



S. Hutchings, Bengal; A. D. Machardo, Perak; Museum Paris, New 

 Caledonia; Rev. J. Gillet, Congo; Dr. G. Zenker, Kamerun; H. Perrier de 

 la Bathie, Madagascar; Dr. K. Braun, German East Africa; Miss A. V. 

 Duthie, Transvaal; J. Medley Wood, Natal; P. Koenig, Mauritius. 



LENTINUS VELLEREUS. Color yellowish (when dry) with dark, 

 rather broad gills. Surface velvety or lomcntosc. Specimens from A. A. 

 Evelyn, Barbados, sent with the next species, which is alleged to be same 

 but the statement is to me most dubious. 



LENTINUS SCLEROPUS. Color yellowish, glabrous, with rather 

 broad gills. This is the same as the preceding excepting as to surface. 

 Statement has been published that it is the same species. I much doubt 

 it. It appears quite common in the American tropics judging from the 

 number of times it has been discovered to be a "new species" (about a 

 dozen). Per soon named this plant from Gaudichaud's collection in Brazil, 

 and the type is in good condition at Paris. Murrill takes the name Lentinus 

 hirtus as the valid name for the species, although years subsequent 

 to Persoon's name. Can it be possible that Murrill has joined issues with 

 the band of conspirators at Brussels and excludes poor old Persoon from 

 the benefits of "those sacred rights of priority?" Lentinus infundibuli- 

 formis the type (almost destroyed) from Central America seems to be 

 same as scleropus, but the determination from the East are obviously a 

 different species. I have one specimen of scleropus from A. A. Evelyn, 

 Barbados. 



LENTINUS REVELATUS. This is much the same as scleropus of 

 the American tropics, but differs in very narrow, close gills. I have col- 

 lections made in Samoa. The types of revelatus have much longer stalks 

 and several are more infundibuliform than my collection, but I prefer to 

 so refer them rather than propose a new species. 



LENTINUS SCLEROTICOLA. The species of Lentinus that are de- 

 veloped from a tuber have not been studied in detail by me. The most 

 common one, in Africa at least, is Lentinus Tuber regium supposed to 

 have been originally illustrated by Rumphius, but if so, very crudely. I 

 collected one in Samoa, that is surely Lentinus scleroticola as named by 

 Murray, but as to the relative value of the five or six "specific names of 

 Lentinus from tubers, I have made no studies. 



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