44 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
solid, hard, squamulose, whitish, sometimes brownish toward the 
base; spores ellipsoid, .c002~.0003 of am imch long, .coo1—.00016 
broad. 
Piléus I-1.5 imches broad; stem 1-1-5 imches long, 12 limes 
Decaying wood. <A small but attractive species. 
There is a common form m which the lamellae are obliterated 
Or overrun by a mass of mycelium or compact tomentum. ‘This 
was at first thought to be a diseased or abnormal state of the 
species and was characterized as transforming the lamellae to a 
“woody mass” or “spongy mass.” This form was later thought 
to be a distimct species and was described under the name Lento- 
dium squamulosum Morg. But simce the two forms are 
sometimes found growing together on the same stump or log 
and as they both produce spores of the same character it seems 
better to consider them both forms of ome species. We may sup- 
pose this abnormal form to develop the hyphae of the hymentum 
In excessive abundance and that these hyphae bear spores directly 
without the imtervention of basidia. The abmormal form might 
im such a case be considered in the light of a comidial state of 
the species. 
Lentmus sulcatus Berk. 
Panus fulvidus Bres. 
SULCATE LENTINUS 
Pileus fieshy, thm, tough, comic becoming hemispheric or con- 
vex, cracking on the surface and forming irregular scales, virgate 
toward the margm, sulcate om the margin, reddish or tawny, often 
darker im the center; lamellae subdistant, rounded behind or 
emarginate, slightly adnexed, obscurely dentate on the edge, white 
or pallid; stem central, short, solid, sometmmes narrowed down- 
ward, prumose or slightly furfuraceous, white or pallid; spores 
oblong, .coo5—.0007 of an mech long, .00024—.0003 broad. 
Pileus 8-12 limes broad; stem 6-10 Imes long, 1-5-3 limes thick. 
Crevices of dry wood or old femce rails. Essex county. Jume. 
A rare species and found but once in our State. In the dried 
specimens the margin of the pileus is distinctly sulcate and the 
grooves are paler tham the intervening ridges. 
