220 BRITISH FUNGI 



** Cap with a lateral stem, or sessile. 



L. scoticus. — Cap thin, soft, variable in form, plane, umbilicate 

 or funnel-shaped, smooth, pallid or brownish, hygrophanous, 1-2 in. 

 across ; gills decurrent when a stem is present, rather distant, 

 strongly toothed, pallid ; stem very excentric or lateral, springing 

 from brown mycelium, \-ery \'ariable in length. 



Without any fragrant smell. Edge of cap often lobed. 



On furze, birch, etc. Sohtary or tufted. 



L. fimbriatus. — Cap thin, pliant, somewhat dimidiate, depressed 

 behind, whitish or pale fawn-colour, |-| in. across, edge whitish 

 with darker scales ; gills narrow, tinged brown, edge toothed and 

 torn ; stem whitish, curved, up to \ in. long. 



The smallest of British species. 



On a stump standing in a pond. Very rare. 



L. vidpiniis. — Cap sessile, or extended beliind into a short, 

 stem-like base, imbricated, tough, orbicular or shell-shaped, 

 grown together behind, wrinkled and rough with minute points, 

 pale tan-colour, 1-2^ in. across ; gills broacl, white, edge torn. 



On trunks and stumps. Inodorous. 



L. flahelliformis. — Cap thin, flabby, and tough, almost sessile, 

 reniform or kidney-shaped, plane or more or less depressed behind, 

 smooth, even, fawn-colour or pale cinnamon, edge more or less 

 crenulate, 1-2 in. across ; gills rather broad, often torn, palhd. 



On trunks and stumps. Tufted or imbricated. 



Pan us 



Entire fungus leathery and tough, drying up and not decaying 

 quickly ; cap irregular in form, stipitate, sessile, and horizontal, or 

 altogether resupinate ; gills more or less decurrent, unequal, dry, 

 edge quite entire ; stem central, excentric or absent. 



Allied to Lentinits, but distinguished by the entire edge of the 

 gills. 



* Stem excentric. 



P. conchatus. — Cap tough and flexible, unequal, excentric, edge 

 often lobed, cinnamon-colour, becoming pale and more or less 

 squamulose, flesh thin, up to -3 in. across ; gills narrow, somewhat 

 branched, pinkish white, then pale ochre, forming decurrent lines 

 down the stem ; stem very short, base downy. 



Often imbricated and the caps more or less grown together ; gills 

 crisped or wavy when dry. 



On trunks of beech, poplar, etc. 



P. torulosKs (PI. XVIII, fig. 5). — Cap tough and pliant, plane, 

 infundit)uliform or dimidiate, edge often very wavy, tinged flesh- 

 colour, then ochraceous, not scaly, 2-3 in. across ; gills decurrent, 

 narrow, rather distant, not branching behind, ruddy, then pale buff ; 

 stem |-i in. long, solid, oblique, densely covered with grey down. 



