150 
FETCH : 
from this layer and forced their way through cracks in the 
bark. The stout ring, the remains of a universal veil, soon 
disappears, being apparently eaten off by insects. When 
the fungus begins to dry in situ, it turns yellow-brown, the 
discolouration extending from the margin inwards ; at the 
same time it shrinks and becomes semitranslucent, horny, 
and radially striate ; the stalk also shrinks and becomes 
glabrous, longitudinally ridged, and black. Specimens 
gathered and dried when recently expanded appear quite 
different from these old, naturally dried examples. Young, 
partially expanded specimens do not appear to have any 
processes on the gills. 
Lentinus connatus Berk., Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot., I., p. 145. 
Lentimis revelatus Berk., Decades of Fungi, 160 ; L. vetatus 
B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, 403 ; L. infundibuliformis B. & Br., 
Fungi of Ceylon, 406. 
Cæspitose ; deeply infundibuliform, up to 20 cm. high 
and 18 cm. diameter, cream-coloured or pale ochraceous, 
often blackish at the base of the funnel, sometimes radially 
streaked gray, minutely t ornent ose oi*i3curfy, glabrous towards 
the margin, sometimes dotted with minute black points ; 
flesh thin. Gills decurrent, crowded, very narrow (1-2 mm.), 
white, then cream-coloured. Stalk usually long, up to 1 * 6 cm. 
diameter, clothed with woolly tomentum, which is at first 
white, becoming gray or sometimes blackish, the tomentum 
usually extending along the edge of the gills. Spores white, 
oval, 5-8 X 3-3*5 jr. 
Common on logs and stumps, Peradeniya, See. 
Lentinus subnudus Berk., Decades of Fungi, 161. 
Lentinus inconspicuus Berk., Decades of Fungi, 164 ; L. 
cretaceus B. & Br., Fungi of Ceylon, 405 ; L. manipularis B. 
& Br., Fungi of Ceylon, 407 ; L. lobatus B. & Br., Fungi of 
Ceylon, 417 ; L. pergameneus Lév., in Berkeley, Decades of 
Fungi, inter 161 et 162 ; L. anthocephalus Lév., in Berkeley, 
Decades of Fungi, inter 161 et 162. 
Cæspitose ; up to 8 cm. diameter and 7 cm. high, infundi- 
buliform, margin usually regularly decurved, white, clothed 
with closely adpressed scales, or squarrose ; in drier weather 
sometimes gray ; flesh thin. Gills rather crowded, broad 
