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Mycologia 



Lentinus calvescens Berk. Hook. Journ. Bot. 8: 141. 1856. 



(Type from Brazil.) 

 Panus Infundibulum Berk. & Curt. Proc. Am. Acad. 4: 121. 



i860. (Type from Nicaragua.) 

 Panus cubensis Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 300. 1868. 



(Type from Cuba.) 

 Lentinus vellereus Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 301. 1868. 



(Type from Cuba.) 

 Lentinus estriatus Berk. & Br. Jour. Linn. Soc. 14: 44. 1875. 



(Type from Ceylon.) 

 Agaricus (Clitocybe?) Calyx Speg. Anal. Soc. Ci. Argent. 16: 



243. 1883. (Type from Brazil.) 

 Lentinus (Scleroma) paraguayensis Speg. Anal. Soc. Ci. Argent. 



16:275. 1883. (Type from Brazil.) 

 Crepidotus lentinoides Earle, Inform. An. Estag. Centr. Agron. 



Cuba 1: 236. 1906. (Type from Cuba.) 



This large, and conspicuous species is abundant in the West 

 Indies and the warmer portions of Central America and South 

 America, but it has not been collected, I believe, in the Bahamas, 

 Mexico, or the United States. Its surface may be velvety or 

 glabrous, smooth or striate, according to exposure, weather, age, 

 etc., and these variations occur also in India, Ceylon, Mauritius, 

 Madagascar, and other parts of the oriental Tropics where it is 

 common. To the above list of synonyms, should probably be 

 added Lentinus Kurzianus Berk., L. Thwaitesii Berk. & Br., and 

 a few other species ; while L. exilis Kl., L. praerigidus Berk., 

 and L. Rivae Bres. are very closely related. Discolored speci- 

 mens from Guadeloupe have been determined as L. melano- 

 phyllus Lev., an- oriental species. 



Cuba, Earle 298, Wilson 1350, Britton & Earle & Wilson 6010 , 

 Earle & Murrill 179, Wright; Haiti, Nash 148; Porto Rico, 

 Earle 41, 72, E. G. Britton & Marble 618, Underwood & Griggs 

 1 001; Jamaica, Underwood 1924, Earle 2j6, E. G. Britton 491; 

 Grenada, Broadway; St. Kitts, Britton & Cowell 249; British 

 Honduras, M. E. Peck; Montserrat, Shafer 910; Brazil, Weiss 

 & Schmidt. 



