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Mycologia 



Lentinus fumigatus Lev. Ann. Sc. Nat. III. 5: 117. 1846. 



(Type from French Guiana.) 

 Lentinus Leveillei Berk. Trans. Linn. Soc. 20 : 112. 1851. (Type 



from Surinam.) 



Lentinus nicaraguensis Berk. & Curt. Proc. Am. Acad. 4: 121. 



i860. (Type from Nicaragua.) 

 Lentinus Leprieurii Mont. Am. Sc. Nat. IV. 1: 119. 1854. 



(Type from French Guiana.) 

 Lentinus Wrightii Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 300. 1868. 



(Type from Cuba.) 

 Lentinus subcervinus Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10 : 300. 



1868. (Type from Cuba.) 

 Lentinus rigidulus Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 300. 1868. 



(Type from Cuba.) 

 Lentinus Schomburgkii Berk.; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 9: 71. 1891. 



(Type from British Guiana.) 

 Pocillaria vestida Earle, Inform. An. Estaq. Centr. Agron. Cuba 



1:231. 1906. (Type from Cuba.) 



There are no doubt other synonyms, but these will suffice for 

 the present. L. zonatus Lev. has been applied to specimens col- 

 lected in French Guiana by Leprieur, and Xerotus reniformis 

 Mey, and Xerotus tomentosus Kl., to plants sent to Fries from 

 Surinam by Wenck. L. Zeyheri Berk, is an oriental species 

 nearly allied to the very villose forms. 



This species is remarkable for its variations, especially in color 

 and villosity, the extreme development of hairy covering being 

 represented by L. villosus, L. nigripes, L. stuppeus, Pocillaria 

 vestida, etc., in the above list. Sometimes the hairs are small and 

 soft ; and in most specimens the pileus tends to become bald with 

 age, thus adding to the confusion. The plant is extremely com- 

 mon on exposed logs, having been collected throughout our entire 

 tropical region, as well as in southern Florida, Mississippi, South 

 America, and in the oriental Tropics. Over one hundred different 

 collections have recently been brought to the Garden from tropical 

 America. 



