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463. Lentinus calvescens. Berk. Dec. No. 536. Sacc. Syll. 
2348. 
Pileus umbilicate, then infundibuliforra, pallid, at first villose, 
then bald, margin lobed(7-8 c.m . broad) ; stem short, naked (11- 
2| c.m. long, 4 m.m. thick) ; gills rather distant, very decurrent, 
rather broad, edge thin, nearly entire. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
b. Lepidei. Pileus scaly, with a more or less manifest veil. 
464. Lentinus tigrinus. Fr. Ei/m . Eur. 481. Cooke Tllus 
t. 1138. Sacc. Syll. 2849. 
Pileus fleshy, leathery, thin, orbicular, umbilicate, whitish, 
sprinkled with innate pilose blackish scales (4-6 c.m. broad); 
stem thin, not striate, scaly, somewhat veiled at the apex (2-6 c.m. 
long) j gills attenuated, decurrent, very narrow, white, then 
yellowish. Spores subsphseroid, 6^x3^. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
465. Lentinus Dunalii. D. Cnnd. FI. Fr. v., 47. Fr. Hym. 
Bur. 481. Cooke Ulus. t. 1 1 396. Sacc. Syll. 2350. 
Pileus fleshy-coriaceous, thin, umbilicate, irregular, pallid 
(5 c.m. broad ), clothed with adpressed. spot-like scales ; stem short, 
somewhat silky (2i c.m. long, 6 m.m. thick) ; gills decurrent, 
crowded, pallid. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
466. Lentinus lepideus. Fr. Hym. Eur. 481. Cooke Illus. 
t. 1140, 1141. Sacc. Syll. 2351. 
Pileus fleshy, compact, tough, convex, then depressed, unequal, 
(2-4 in.), pallid-ochraceous, broken up into darker spot-like scales ; 
stem stout, rooting, tomentose or scaly ; gills sinuate, decurrent, 
broad, torn, transversely striate, whitish. 
On stumps of firs, etc. Queensland. 
467. Lentinus exasperatus. B. Sr Br. Linn. Trans, n., 55. 
Sacc. Syll. 2358. 
Pileus flattened, umbonate, veiled, rough with rigid warts, 
powdered with ferruginous (12-13 nun. broad); stem thickened 
downwards (10 m.m. long, 6 m.m. thick) ; gills free, here and 
there eroded. 
On trunks. Queensland. 
468. Lentinus subnudus. Berk. Hook. Journ. 1847, 492. 
Sacc. Syll. 2361. 
Pileus rather infnndibulilbrm, at first clad with mealy scales, 
then becoming smooth and virgate (2 in. or more broad) ; stem 
slender rigid, blackish below (1 in. or more long), dilated at the 
apex ; gills rather broad, nearly entire, scarcely echinulate, decur- 
rent rather distant. 
On fallen trees. Victoria. S. Australia. Queensland. 
