' i l , (A
hemispherica], rugulose, beset with scattered purple bristles,
as well as the horny, dark purple stem; gills adnexed, narrow,
simple, white.—Sow. t. 164.
On fallen holly-leaves. Southern counties and Wales.
Not uncommon. One of the most exquisite of Fungi.
23. M. saccharinns, Fr.; pileus membranaceous, convex,
subpapillate, smooth, sulcate and plicate; stem very slender,
flocculose, then smooth, reddish, inserted obliquely; gills
broadly adnate, thick, narrow, very distant, connected by
veins, dirty-white.
On dead twigs. Rare. King’s Cliife.
24. M. epiphyllns, F r .; pileus membranaceous, nearly
plane, at length umbilicate, smooth, plicato-rugose; stem
rather horny, finely velvety, bright brown below, inserted;
gills adnate, few, distant, entire, veiny, white.—Sow. t. 93.
On fallen leaves, twigs, etc., especially ash-petioles. Extremely
common. Pileus white. Sometimes almost destitute
of gills.
25. M. spodoleueus, B. and B r .; conchiform, resupinate;
margin at length free, cinereous above, pulverulent or slightly
furfuraceous; stem wanting; gills few, white; interstices even.
—Ann. of Nat. Hist. May 1859.
On dead elm-twigs. Batheaston, C. E. Broome. Gills
narrow, entire, leaving a naked space at the base.
13. LENTINUS, Pr.
Coriaceous, fleshy, and tough, at length hard, tough, dry.
Gills tough. Edge acute, toothed. Hymenophorum homogeneous
with the stem.
1. L. tigrinus, F r.; pileus fleshy, suhcoriaceous, thin, orbicular,
umbilicate, dirty-white, adorned with innate black
scales; stem slender, squamulose, with a decided veil; gills
attenuato-decurrcnt, very narrow, white, tinged with yellow.
—Sow. t. 68.
On old stumps. Bare. King’s Cliffe, on an oak-stem.
Smell strong, acrid, like that of some Lactarii. Gills forming
little villous pores above the filmy ring.
2. L. Dnnalii, F r .; small; pilens fleshy-coriaceous, thin,
umbilicate, often excentric, pallid, clothed with adpressed
spot-like scales; stem short, rough towards the base ivith
little black scales; gills decurrent, crowded, pallid. (Plate 15,
fig- 2-)
On ash-trees. Bare. Dorsetshire. Smaller than the last,
and harder. Perhaps merely a variety. The character given
by Fries does not accord with De Candolle’s description, still
less with Bull. t. 36. I t is perhaps too near L. tigrinus.
Odour subacid, farinaceous.
3. L. lepideus, F r .; pileus fleshy, compact, tough, convex,
then depressed, unequal, pallid-oohraceons, broken up into
darker spot-like scales; stem stout, rooting, tomentoso-squa-
mose; gills sinuate, decurrent, hroad, torn, transversely striate,
dirty-white.—Row. t. 382.
On stumps of firs. Rare. Pileus 2-4 inches across. Often
producing stems without pilei, and variously branched.
4. L. adhserens, F r .; pileus rather fleshy, tough, irregular,
lacunose, subpulverulent, dingy, pallid, glutinoso-laccate, as
well as the somewhat hollow, rooting stem; gills decurrent,
forming lines on the stem, very thin, torn, wliite.—With. iv.
p. 160.
In pine-woods. The citation of Withering is doubtful,, as
he says nothing as to the substance on which his plant grows,
though his description corresponds.