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AGARICACE^E 



c. 



Marasmius 



1431. M. spodoleueus B. & Br. (from its grey pileus and white gills ; 



Gr. spades^ wood-ash, leukos^ white) a b c. 



P. at first flat, resupinate, then campanulate, at length pendulous, 

 pulverulent or subfurfuraceous, cinereous or pale umber. G. 

 inside bell, few, short, leaving a naked space at apex of bell, 

 interstices even. Flesh umber. 



Dead twigs, elm. Nov.-Mar. Diam. f in. The same as M. Broomei 

 Berk. Sometimes not unlike 1449. 



LIII. LENTINUS Fr. 



(From the tough, pliant substance ; lentus, tough or pliant.) 



^//ragged-pendulous at the margin of the pileus and more or 

 less fugitive-annulate in the first section, in the other except 1439 



obsolete. Pileus fleshy-coriaceous, 

 pliant or hard, persistent. Stem hard, 

 central, lateral or obsolete, con- 

 tinuous with the hymenophore when 

 present. Gills concrete with the 

 hymenophore, thin, membranous, un- 

 equal, tough, edge acute, often serrate, 

 crenate or irregular ; trama none. 

 Spores white. (Fig. 67.) 



Growing on wood, rarely ter- 

 restrial, polymorphous, somewhat 

 irregular. Distinguished from Pleu- 

 rotus by the hardness of the flesh and 

 the serrate gills. Species 1432 1441 



MESOPOD^E. Pilens nearly entire, 

 margin at first inrolled. Stem 

 distinct. 



a. Lepidece. Pileus scaly. More 



or less veiled. 1432, 1433 



b. Pulverulent^. Pileus villous 



or pulverulent. 1434 1436 



c. CochleatcB. Pileus smooth. 



1437 



sessile or furnished with a somewhat 



14381441 



MESOPOD^E. 

 a. Lepidecz. 



1432. L. tigrinus Fr. (from the tiger-like markings of the pileus) a b c. 



P. convex, umbilicate to infundibuliform, pale yellowish, clad 



with umber sc. ; mid. sepia. St. solid, equal or attenuate 



Fig. 67. Section of Lentinus 



cochleatus Fr. 

 One-half natural size. 



PLEUROT/E. Dimidiate, 

 lateral stem. 



