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HYMENOMYCETES 
XEROTUS 
(Gr. xevos, dry ; ous , an ear—from the ear-like shape and 
dry substance) 
X. degener (degener, degenerate—not so highly developed 
as other members of the genus). Plate XLV. 9. 
P. about 1 in., very tough, thin, membranaceous, corky, 
plane, then infundibuliform, greyish-bay and striate at first, 
grey and more or less zoned when dry. G. very few, very 
distant, decurrent, simple or dichotomous, greyish-white, 
first appearing as ribs or ridges. S. 1 in. (often much less), 
very tough, thin, brown, with a white downy coating. In 
peat-mosses and on naked soil in winter. Rare in Britain. 
PANUS 
(A name given by Pliny to an arboreal fungus) 
P. stypticus ( stypticus , astringent—from its taste). Plate 
XLV. 16. 
P. |-i-| in., dry, thin, not membranaceous, cinnamon, be¬ 
coming yellowish-buff, scurfy. G. thin, narrow, crowded, 
connected by veins or thin ridges, cinnamon. S. in., 
lateral, solid, compressed, paler than the pileus. Gregarious 
aut. and win., usually imbricated on decaying stumps, espe¬ 
cially cut surface of oak and chestnut-stumps. Common. 
Taste remarkably hot and pungent. 
LENTINUS 
(Lentus, tough or pliant—from the tough substance) 
L. cochleatus ( cochlea , a snail-shell—from the somewhat 
shell-like pileus), “ Snail-shell.” Plate XLV. 1. 
P. 1-2 in., tough, flexible, irregularly lobed and twisted, 
depressed, sometimes infundibuliform, reddish-cinnamon. 
G. somewhat decurrent, crowded, margin serrate, pinkish- 
