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7. Lentinus chrysopeplus Berk. & Curt. Jour. 

 Linn. Soc. 10: 301. 1868 

 The single specimen at Kew is well preserved and appears 

 very distinct. The stipe resembles that of L. crinitus, but the 

 pileus is adorned with a thick golden tomentum. The spores are 

 ovoid, pointed at one end, smooth, hyaline, 7 X 4-5 /*• 



8. Lentinus strigellus Berk. & Curt. Jour. 

 Linn. Soc. 10: 302. 1868 

 Panus (Eupanus) guaraniticus Speg. Anal. Soc. Ci. Argent. 16: 



275. 1883. (Type from Brazil.) 

 Pocillaria simulans Earle, Inform. An. Estag. Centr. Agron. Cuba 



1: 232. 1906. (Type from Cuba.) 

 Pocillaria Palmeri Earle, Inform. An. Estag. Centr. Agron. Cuba 

 1 : 232. 1906. (Type from Cuba.) 



This shapely and well-marked species, described from Cuba, is 

 widely distributed in our region, as the list of specimens given 

 below will indicate. Specimens at Kew labeled Panus velutipes, 

 from Sante Comapam, Mexico, belong to this species. 



Cuba, Underwood & Earle 1504, 547, 408, 151 5, 602, 435, 603, 

 Shafer 218, 4487, Earle & Murrill 567, 489, 524, Palmer & Riley 

 597, Earle 80, 364, Wright, Britton & Earle & Gager 6826, 7517 ; 

 Porto Rico, Britton & Cowell 102 1, 105 1 ; Jamaica, Earle 343, 94, 

 147, Murrill 201 ; Guadeloupe, Duss; Cordoba, Mexico, Salle 102; 

 British Honduras, M. E. Peck; Panama, Williams n 47; Costa 

 Rica, Hoffmann; Peru, Matthews; Brazil, Balansa 3372. 



9. Lentinus graminicola sp. nov. 



Pileus small, regular, funnel-shaped, 2-3 cm. broad, the central 

 depression about 5 mm. wide; surface glabrous, smooth, isabel- 

 line; margin fibrillose, concolorous, deflexed on drying: context 

 thin, rigid when dry ; lamellae white, of medium breadth and dis- 

 tance apart, unequal, decurrent, edges entire : spores smooth, 

 ovoid, hyaline, 7X4^: stipe gradually enlarged above, abruptly 

 swollen at the base, glabrous, smooth, concolorous, solid, 2-3 cm. 

 long, 2-3 mm. thick. 



This species may be found in late summer among grass in the 

 open pine lands of western Cuba, attached to old grass roots. 



