LENTINUS. 157 



According to Fries the odour is weak, of anise ; but it is generally strong Lentinus. 

 and very pleasant. Spores sphaeroid or ellipsoid-sphseroid, uniguttate, 4-6 

 mk. K. ; almost globular, 4 mk. IV.G.S. Name cochlea, a snail-shell. 

 From the shape. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 235. Hym. Eur. p. 484. Berk. Out. 

 p. 226. /. 19.7. 4. C. Hbk. n. 686. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 650. Price t. 125. 

 Ag. Sow. t. 1 68. 



II. PLEUROTI. Dimidiate, &c. 



7. L. scoticus B. & Br. Pileus 1-4 cent. (%-i l / 2 in.) broad, 

 pallid, at length brownish, hygrophanous, umbilicate, sometimes 

 infundibuliform, at length flattened ; extremely variable in form, 

 either quite stemless and reniform, or variously stipitate, lobed 

 at the margin and sinuate, or plicate. Stem when present vary- 

 ing from 4 mm. (2 lin.) to 5 cent. (2 in.) long, cylindrical, darker, 

 pulverulent, springing from a brown, fibril lose mycelium. Gills 

 decurrent when the stem is developed, rather distant, strongly 

 toothed. 



Solitary or caespitose ; sometimes 2 pilei are joined. Inodorous, or at any 

 rate without p.ny odour of aniseed. The nearest ally to this curious species is 

 L. omphalodes. 



On decayed nlex, birch and spruce. Menmuir. Glamis. 

 Nov.-Jan. 



The teeth of the gills are very irregularly torn. Name Scottish. B. & 

 Br. n. 1423. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 651. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 485. 



8. L. fimbriatus Curr. Pileus 1-2.5 cent - (%-i in.) broad, fawn- 

 colour, covered with darker floccose scales, somewhat dimidiate, 

 somewhat coriaceous, thin (not fleshy), depressed, sometimes 

 very much so and almost cyathiform, margin slightly involute, 

 almost strigose. Stem Y$- 1 X in. long, lateral, rough with some- 

 what reflexed scales of the same colour as the gills, or rather 

 paler. Gills descending, but not decurrent, irregularly serrated 

 and torn at the margin, pale brown. 



In young specimens a delicate white fimbriate collar or fringe (the remains 

 of the ruptured veil) separates the gills from the stem. Pilei two or three 

 together, one above another in an imbricated manner. Some of the pilei 

 tinged here and there with pink stains. 



On a stump standing in a pond. Lewes. Sept. 



JZm&rzte, fringe. From the fimbriate collar. Currey in Trans. 

 Linn. Soc. xxiv. p. 152. t. 25. /. 2. C. Hbk. n. 688. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 485. 



9. L. vulpinus Fr. Sessile, many times imbricated. Pilei 

 tan, fleshy, very pliant, reniform-conchate, very convex, margin 

 deflexed and almost perpendicular, hence concave beneath ; sur- 

 face wholly peculiar, with raised longitudinal ribs, which are 



