Leucosporae 



ANALYSIS OF TRIBES. 



MESOPODES (niesos, middle; pous, a foot). Page 229. 

 Stem distinct. 



PLEUROTI (pleura, a side; ous, an ear ). 

 Stem lateral or absent. None known to be edible. 



I. MESO'PODES (center-stemmed). 



L. Lecom'tei Fr. Pileus coriaceous, funnel-shaped, regularly re- 

 flexed, hairy, tawny. Gills crowded, pallid. Stem short, hairy, tawny. 



Common to the states. 



Professor Peck writes to me: "This plant, by reason of its rather 

 tough substance, has commonly been referred to Lentinus, under the 

 name L. Lecomtei Schw., but this reference is scarcely satisfactory to 

 me, since the edge of the lamellae is scarcely at all serrate as required 

 by that genus. It seems to me it would go better under the genus 

 Panus. It is variable sometimes eccentric or even lateral. It is some- 

 times called Lentinus strigosus, but I do not think the two are distinct 

 species, however distinct they may be in form." February 26, 1894. 



Like all Lentinus the present species is rather tough, yet chopped 

 into small pieces, well cooked and seasoned, it is quite equal to P. 

 ostreatus and many others of high renown. 



L. tigri'nus Fr. tigris, a tiger. From the markings. PileilS com- 



(Plate LIU.) 



monly 2 in. broad, white, variegated 

 with somewhat adpressed, blackish, 

 hairy squamules, fleshy-coriaceous, 

 thin, commonly orbicular and cen- 

 tral, at first convexo-plane, umbili- 

 cate, at length funnel-shaped, often 

 split at the margin when dry. Stem 

 about 2 in. long, thin, solid, very 

 hard, commonly attenuated down- 

 ward, minutely squamulose, whitish, 

 often ascending and becoming dingy- 

 brown at the base, at first furnished 

 nf flic apex with an entire re flexed ring, which soon falls off. Gills de- 



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LENTINUS TIGRINUS. 

 About one-half natural size. 



