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Habitat: On the ground, attached to sticks and buried wood. 

 Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



W. A. Murrill 



A New Species of Lentinus from Minnesota 

 Splendid specimens of an interesting species of Lentinus were 

 received for determination in August, 191 7, from Dr. E. M. Free- 

 man, who wrote me, as follows : 



"The specimens were collected at Itasca Park (Lake Itasca), Minn., on a 

 large old log which was not identified, but probably was a conifer of some 

 sort. The sporophores varied from four to eight (or ten) inches across and 

 were almost uniformlj'- flesh-colored all over. They had a very pleasant odor, 

 somewhat resembling pineapple. They had the general appearance of a Len- 

 tinus with the rooting base, and the specimens which I am sending in a sepa- 

 rate package show their non-putrescent character. The branching and anas- 

 tomosing of the gills was very marked, while the teeth on the gill edge were 

 very inconspicuous. The sporophores grew in a cluster. They have been 

 partially eaten by squirrels or other animals. I have ne\ er seen this fungus 

 before, although I have collected at this park for almost ten years." 



Being unable to recognize Dr. Freeman's plant or to associate 

 it definitely with any known herbarium specimen or description, 

 I have decided to publish it as new and to dedicate it to the 

 discoverer. 



Lentinus Freemanii sp. nov. 



Pileus very large, circular, plane, cespitose, 10-20 cm. or more 

 broad; surface dry, finely hispid-tomentose, uniformly dark-rosy- 

 isabelline when fresh, becoming somewhat paler on drying; con- 

 text white, unchanging, reaching 4 cm. in thickness near the 

 center, eaten by squirrels or other animals, having a pleasant odor 

 resembling that of pineapples ; lamellae long-decurrent, thin, very 

 narrow and very crowded, branched and anastomosing, rosy- 

 isabelline, becoming dark-purplish-brown when bruised, very 

 slightly dentate on the edges, usually splitting into plates or 

 lacerate with age ; spores narrowly-oblong, usually curved and 

 pointed at one end, smooth, hyaline, 9-1 1 X3-5a^; stipe central, 

 curved, solid, rather slender, usually enlarged near the base and 

 expanding into the pileus at the apex, clothed and colored like 

 the pileus where not covered with decurrent lamellae, 8-15 cm. 

 long, 2^4 cm. thick. 



Type collected at Itasca Park, Minnesota, August, 1917, by 

 E. M. Freeman. 



