46 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
base, taste acrid; lamellae broad, lacerate dentate on the edge, 
whitish; spores minute, globose, uninucleate, rough, hyaline, 
.o0o16 of an inch in diameter. 
Pileus 2-3 inches broad. 
Decaying wood. Rensselaer and Warren counties. August 
and September. 
This species is remarkable for the change that takes place, as 
it matures, in its color and ornamentation, and for the hot peppery 
taste of the flesh. Sometimes the pileus is costate corrugate. on 
the margin in our specimens though such a character is not attri- 
buted to the European plant, neither is the acrid flavor. 
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Lentinus haematopus Berk. 
RED STEMMED .LENTINUS 
Pileus 134-134 inches broad, umbilicate or depressed, ochra- 
ceous, quite smooth; lamellae decurrent, margin lacerated; stem 
1—2 lines high, blood-red, almost laccate at the base, 14 inch thick. 
North America, locality unknown. [Greviilea, 1:33. 1872] 
Pileus thin, plane or centrally depressed, lobed on the margin, 
glabrous, pale yellow or cream color; lamellae decurrent, dentate 
serrate, white; stem short, firm, eccentric, glabrous, blood-red; 
spores unknown. . 
Pileus 1.5-2 inches broad; stem 2-3 lines long, about 2 lines 
thick. 7 
Prostrate trunk of striped maple, Acer pennsylvanicum 
L.* Essex county. Gansevoort, Saratoga co. July. 
This rare species has been found but twice in our State, so far 
as is known. The original description is so brief and unsatisfac- 
tory that it has been quoted and a fuller description, derived 
from our specimens, added. The essential characters of the origi- 
nal description are so peculiar and the agreement of our speci- 
mens with them is so close that we do not doubt their specific 
unity. 
Lentinus suavissimus Fr. 
SWEET SCENTED LENTINUS 
Pileus thin, tough, convex and umbilicate or centrally depressed, 
glabrous, even or striate on the margin, whitish or yellowish, flesh 
white, odor agreeable, resembling the odor of melilot; lamellae 
denticulate, decurrent, sometimes wavy and anastomosing at the 
