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452. Marasmius exocarpi. Berk. Linn. Journ. xvm., 384. 
Sacc. Syll. 2291. 
Wholly resupinate, white (7-10 m.m. diam.) ; gills very few, 
interstices broad, even. 
On trunks of Exocarpus. Victoria. Queensland. 
No trace to be found of any species called Marasmius nigripes. 
Berk. 
Genus 14, LENTINUS. Fr . Ep . 45. 
Pileus fleshy, coriaceous, tough, when old, bard and dry; stem 
hard and often obsolete, when present continuous with the hymeno- 
phore ; gills tough, simple, unequal, thin, edge acute, generally 
toothed ; trama none. 
I. Mkbopodes. Fileus almost entire, stem distinct. 
a. Criniti. Pileus hairy or strigose. 
453. Lentinus Lecomtei. Fr. Epicr. i., 388. Sacc. Syll. 
2308. 
Pileus coriaceous, infundibuliform, circumference regularly 
reflexed, fawn colour (2-5 c.m. diam.) ; stem equal, hairy, of the 
same colour (2-3 c.m. long) ; gills much crowded, pallid. 
On rotten wood. Queensland. N. 8. Wales. 
454. Lentiuus strigosus. Fr. Epicr. 388. Sacc. Syll. 
2311. 
Reddish fawn colour. Pileus unequal, rather depressed, 
strigosely hairy (2-5 c.m. diam.), as well as the excentric stem 
(2-6 c.m. long) ; gills decurrent, pallid. 
On trunks. Queensland. Cudgegong River. 
455. Lentiuus fulvus. Berk. Ann. Nat. Hist, x., 369. Sacc. 
Syll. v., 2312. 
Pileus deeply infundibuliform, silicate, striate, somewhat zoned, 
bay brown (4-11 c.m. diam.), invested with a short fasciculate 
tawny, rather hispid tomentum, which is denser about the margin, 
mixed with longer straight setae ; stem hispid or tomentose, equal 
(3|-4 c.m, long, 4 m.m. thick); gills distant, entire, all of one 
length, cinereous. 
On rotten wood. Victoria. Queensland. N.S. Wales. 
456. Lentinus fusco-purpurens. Kalch. Grev. vm,, t. 143, 
f. 17. Sacc. Syll. 2315. 
Pileus coriaceous, infundibuliform, margin reflexed, strigosely 
hairy, purple brown (2-2£ in. broad) ; stem tall, nearly equal, 
densely setulose, of the same colour as the pileus (3-4 in. high) ; 
gills scarcely crowded, sparingly anastomosing, paler than the 
pileus. 
On wood. Queensland. N.S. Wales. 
