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LENTINUS LEPIDEUS Fr. 
By Worrarneton G. Suirn, F.L.S. 
Tae accompanying illustration shows (natural size) a Clavaria- 
like fungus growth that was sent to the British Museum for identi- 
fication by T. E. Lander, ee Blairhill, Rumbling Bridge, N.B., 
in August, 1903. It was found growing in rather damp black soil 
in a wood, attached to a root-fibre. There was a central fleshy 
club, with several smaller scale- like growths springing from the 
sides, something like the scales of a lily bulb, and from these 
scales, as well as from the chief club, grew ‘numbers of thin 
Lentinus seidhe | rs (natural size). 
Clavaria-like minor branches, as illustrated. The club itself is 
sen at a, and a longitudinal section at 8; the three branches at 
as e scale seen at F in section with sev 
re bro: — off in transit, but the sears could be 
seen = which ‘ae pieces had fallen, and the pieces could easily 
be rep 
The was somewhat scurfy, and the colour pallid white 
wets st poo brown above; all the secondary branches were 
e brownish in colour. There were a few very faint sulphury 
stains both on the a and in the cut flesh. The substance 
was fleshy-fibrous, ,and unlike Clavaria. The odour 
was somewhat wn but not unpleasant. . 
JournaL or "cna Vor. 41. OE Ste Y 
