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Mycologia 



Type collected at Herradura in August, 1907, F . S. Earle 574. 

 Also collected in the same locality in 1910, Britton & Earle 6533, 

 and at Pinar del Rio, N. L. Britton & E. G. Britton & C. S. Gager 

 2228. 



10. Lentinus scyphoides Pat. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 

 15: 195. 1899 



Known only from the two collections of Duss in Guadeloupe. 

 Specimens at Berlin are much discolored, but those in Patouil- 

 lard's herbarium are in excellent condition. This species is quite 

 distinct from L. sub scyphoides, according to Patouillard. 



11. Lentinus subscyphoides sp. nov. 



Pileus very thin, nearly regular, funnel-shaped, 2-4 cm. broad ; 

 surface smooth, glabrous, avellaneous tinged with russet or fuli- 

 ginous when young, becoming isabelline at maturity; margin in- 

 volute, concolorous, glabrous : context thin, tough, rigid on dry- 

 ing; lamellae lilac when young, changing to isabelline, narrow, 

 crowded, unequal, decurrent, a few of them bifurcate at the base, 

 edges entire: spore's ovoid, smooth, hyaline, 3.5 X 2 -5>* stipe long, 

 slender, slightly enlarged above and below, cinereous, pruinose, 

 2-3.5 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 mm. thick. 



This species occurs from sea level to 1,500 feet elevation on the 

 north shore of Jamaica, where I have studied it. Patouillard has 

 specimens of it in his herbarium labeled L. fuligineus Berk. & 

 Curt., which is a different plant, although the brief description 

 agrees fairly well. L. scyphoides Pat. is closely related in form 

 and microscopic characters, but is only one third as large. 



Type collected at Moore Town, Jamaica, on dead sticks in 

 dense woods, December 16, 1908, W . A. & Edna L. Murrill 155. 

 Also collected in cocoanut plantations near Manchioneal, Jamaica, 

 W. A. & Edna L. Murrill 191, 194; near Moneague, Jamaica, 

 W. A. & Edna L. Murrill 11 30; Martinique, Duss 1849; and 

 British Honduras, M. E. Peck. 



12. Lentinus velutinus Fries, Linnaea 5: 

 510. 1830 



Panus velutinus Fries, Epicr. Myc. 398. 1838. 

 Lentinus ciliatus Lev. Ann. Sc. Nat. III. 5: 175. 1844. (Type 

 from the Molucca Islands.) 



