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481. Lentinus lateritius. Berk. Linn. Journ. xvin., 384. 
Sncc. Syll. 2459. 
Pileus convex, brick-red, quite smooth, margin involute (2-5 
c.m. broad). Stem of tbe same colour, rigid, nearly equal (5 c.m. 
long, 8-9 m.m. thick). Gills adnexed, eroded, white. 
On wood. Australia. 
482. Lentinus gracilentus. Che. Mass. Grev. xvi., 73. 
Pileus thin, rather membranaceous, infundibuliform, ochraceous, 
smooth (1 in. diam.). Stem slender, brown, smooth, shining 
(2 in. long, 1-2 lines thick). Gills deeply decurrent, scarcely 
crowded, tawny when dry, edge serrulate. Spores 8x5 ju. 
On rotten wood. Victoria. Queensland. (Fig. 45). 
483. Lentinus fulvaster. B. <$• Cke. Brazil No. 119. Sacc. 
Syll. 2471. 
Pileus orbicular, white, becoming tawny when dry, umbilicate, 
smooth (18 m m. diam.). Stem slender, smooth, of the same 
colour (5 c.m. long, 2 m.m. thick). Gills narrow, dentate. 
On dead wood. Harkaway .Range. 
484. Lentinus exilis. Klotsch. Fries Syn. Lent. x. Sacc. 
Syll. 2172. 
Pileus papyraceous, rigid, infundibuliform, regular, even, 
(radiately striate under a lens), pallid tawny (3 in. broad) ; stem 
very short, smooth (12-20 m.m. long), girt by the vestiges of a 
ring ; gills crowded, very decurrent in lines, nearly equal, tawny, 
not torn. 
On putrescent wood. Victoria. Queensland. S. Australia. 
New Caledonia. 
II. Pleuroti. Dimidiate, sessile, or with a lateral stem. 
485. Lentinus hyracinus. Kalch. Grev. vin., t. 143, f. 18. 
Sacc. Syll. 2483. 
Pileus somewhat sessile, orbicular, or semiorbicular, horizontal, 
contracted into a stem-like base (1-2 c.m. long and broad), 
rugulose behind, subtomentose, rufous-brown ; gills rather broad, 
dentate, paler. 
On wood. N.S. Wales. Queensland. 
486. Lentinus fusipes. Cke. Mass. Grev. xvi., 1. 
Pileus fleshy, tough (10 in. broad), thin, tomentose, becoming 
smooth in front, white, umbilicate, at length expanded and 
flattened ; margin thin, acute ; stem lateral, solid (8 in. long, 1 in. 
thick), fusiform and rooting, tomentose and scrobiculate, of the 
same colour ; gills crowded, linear, very narrow, decurrent, 
scarcely darker. 
On rotten wood. Queensland. 
