LENTINUS. 



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On dead leaves, twigs, &c. Common. Sept.-Oct. Marasmius. 



In large specimens the gills form a close collar round the stem, margin of 

 the collar cream-coloured. M.J.B. Name em, upon ; <J>vAAoi/, a leaf. Fr. 

 Monogr. ii. p. 231. Hym. Eur. p. 479. Berk. Out. p. 224. C. Hbk. n. 

 679. 5. Mycol. Scot. n. 645. Ag. Tratt. Austr. f. 22. Fl. Dan. t. H94-/ 

 i. Sow. t. 93. 



III. APUS. 



35. M. spodoleucus Berk. Pileus 4 mm. (2 lin.) broad, cinere- 

 ous, pulverulent or slightly furfuraceous, conchate, resupinate, 

 margin free, arched. Stem none. Hymenium white, very even. 

 Gills few, narrow, entire, so short as to have a naked space at 

 the base, white, interstices even. 



On dead elm-twigs. Batheaston. 



Spores very small, 1-2 mk. W.G.S. Name oTroSdj, wood-ash; 

 white. From the cinereous pileus and white hymenium and gills. B. & Br. 

 n. 803. Berk. Out. p. 224. C. Hbk. n. 681. 



36. M. Broomei Berk. Half-resupinate. Pallid brown then 

 striate black ; hymenium shining white. Gills distant, veined ; 

 interstices even. 



On dead twigs. Batheaston. Jan. 

 Name after C. E. Broome. B. & Br. n. 1795. 



GENUS XV. Lentinus (lentus, tough or pliant). Fr. Epicr. p. 387. Lentinus. 



Pileus fleshy-coriaceous, pliant, or in fleshy species becoming 

 hard when old, persistent. Hymen- 

 ophore continuous with the stem 

 or the base of the pileus when ses- 

 sile. Gills concrete with the hy- 

 menophore, thin, unequal, membran- 

 aceous, with the edge serrated or 

 torn in a toothed manner. Spores 

 somewhat round, even, white. With 

 the exception of one species, grow- 

 ing on wood, polymorphous, some- 

 what irregular, very numerous in 

 warmer countries, decreasing in num- 

 ber and not becoming so hard to- 

 wards the north. Fr. Hym. Eur. 

 p. 480. 



A very natural, though very poly- 



LIV. Lentinus cochleatus. 

 fourth natural size. 



One- 



