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European species obtuse, crisped, not channelled as in non-European
species. Spores white. (Fig. 70.)
Growing on wood, becoming dry and reviving with moisture.
1449. T. erispa Fr. (from the crisped gills) abc.
P. cup-shaped, expanded, resupinate, light-yellowish-rufescent,
zoned rufous; marg. whitish, sometimes almost white. S t
obsolete or rudimentary. G. vein-like, dichotomous, narrow,
white to steel-grey.
Gregarious, imbricate. Logs, branches, twigs, beech, birch; uncommon.
Jan.-Dec. Diam. i j in. Sometimes almost wholly white.
EVIL SCHIZOPHYLLUM Fr.
(From the gills, split longitudinally at the edge;
Gr. schizo, to iffA, phullon, a leaf.)
Veil obsolete. Pilens thin, arid. Stem lateral or none. Gills
coriaceous, channelled longitudinally with edges revolute. Spores
white. (Fig. 7 1.)
Fig. ■ji.—fic h i z o f ij f ilu m comnnme F r., entire and in section.
N a tu r a l iz e , a , section across gills. X lo.
1450. S. commune Fr. (from its being common in certain countries ;
communis, common) abc.
P. arid, at first cup-like, then expanded, reniform or excentric,
resupinate, downy, white or umber-white, commonly zoned
greyish. St. rudimentary or none. G. splitting, the edges
revolute, fuscous-grey to purplish, cinereous or clay-white to
tan-salmon.
Said to be edible. Sold in a dry state in China for soup ; 800 lbs were
exported from Auckland, New Zealand, to China in 1872. Dead wood,
rotten trunks, logs, water-butts, beer-casks, wood in greenhouses, horse-
chestnut, beech, alder, dry hay in silos ; rare in Britain. Mav-Tan
Diam. 2 in.
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LVIII. LENZITES Fr.
(After Harold Othmar Lenz, German botanist.)
Veil obsolete. Pileus corky or coriaceous, texture arid, floccose,
dimidiate, sessile. Stem lateral or none. Gills coriaceous, firm.
„ - L e n n t e s hetulina F r . . entii-e and m section Lower surface on left,
upper on rig h t. One-third natural size.
sometimes simple and unequal, sometimes anastomosing and forming
- - ■ ■ acute ; trama pores behind, edge obtuse to floccose, similar to the
pileus. (Fig. 72.)
Growing on wood, persistent,
and Dadalea amongst the
On wood of deciduous trees.
On coniferous wood.
Allied most nearly to Trametes
Species 1451—1455
1451, 1452
1453—1455
1451. L. hetulina Fr. (from its frequent habitat, birch trunks; betula,
P. f i iD n g i l tomentoso-woolly, flat, lobed, white greyish, buff
or umber-whitish; marg. and z. darker. G. reaching the base,
simple, branched or anastomosing, edge acute. Flesh white.
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1452. L. flaeeida Fr. (from the flaccid substance) a bc.
P thin, easily bent, flat, lobed, whitish to dingy, zoned same
colour. G. reaching the base or an excentric point, broad,
crowded, simple or branched towards base, not anastomosing,
white to salmon. Flesh white.
Stumps, beech. Mur.-Jan. Diam. 4 in. Pileus often green as in 1451.