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=lobatus=, Fr. P. 1-2 cm. horizontal, lobed, brown then pale; g. fold-like, distinct, branched, divergent; sp. ----.

** Growing on wood.

ARRHENIA, Fr.

* Stem lateral.

Resembling Hyduum auriscalpium in form, but smaller.

** Pileus sessile.

Resembles young condition of Pleurotus applicatus.

NYCTALIS, Fr.

A. SPELEAE. Gills crowded, more or less coalescent. Very doubtful, probably morbid forms of Agarics.

=caliginosa=, W. G. Sm. P. subumb. edge incurved, greyish, white and silky when dry, 1 cm.; g. subdecur. thick, narrow, branched, grey; s. 3-5 cm. often inflated, whitish, silky, hollow, rusty inside; sp. 5 x 3.

B. PARASITAE. Gills distinct from each other, distant. Growing on decaying fungi.

Larger than N. asterophora.

=asterophora=, Fr. P. 1-1.5 cm. conical then hemispher. fawn, mealy with large stellate conidia; g. adnate, distant, rather forked, dingy; s. 1-1.5 cm. whitish pruinose then brownish, twisted; sp. 3 x 2.

=parasitica=, Fr. P. 1-2 cm. conical then exp. irreg. with grey meal formed of large, elliptical, smooth conidia; g. adnate, thick, distant, then forked and anastomosing, dusky; s. 2-6 cm. whitish, floccosely downy; sp. 5 x 3.5.

LENTINUS, Fr.

A. MESOPODES. Pileus subentire; stem distinct.

* Pileus squamulose.

=tigrinus=, Fr. P. 3-7 cm. orbicular, umbil. whitish, with blackish innate scales; g. very narrow, tinged yellow; s. 3-5 cm. slender, squamulose; sp. 7 x 3.5.

=Dunalii=, Fr. P. umbil. deformed, pallid with spot-like adpressed scales which disappear; g. crowded, pallid; s. 1.5-2 cm. rather silky; sp. ----.

=lepideus=, Fr. P. 5-7 cm. tough, depr. irreg. pale ochre breaking up into darker spot-like scales; g. sinuato-decur. broad, whitish; s. 2-3 cm. stout, rooting, tomentosely squamulose; sp. 7 x 3. (10-14 x 6 Sacc.)

var. contiguus, Fr. P. thinner, plano-depr. and with the slender stem, even.

** Pileus villose or pulverulent.

=leontopodius=, Schulz. P. 7-16 cm. tough, irreg. slightly tomentose, disc depr. tan, edge bent down, lobed; g. decur. connected by veins, sides rugose; s. 6-9 cm. stout, woody, pulverulent, tan, base blackish; sp. 12-15 long.

=resinaceus=, Fr. P. 2-5 cm. tough, excentric, cinnamon-ochre, villose, matted with resin; g. crowded, shining white; s. 2 cm. partly hollow, downy; sp. ----.

=adhaerens=, A. and S. P. 2-3 cm. tough, irreg. lacunose, rather pulverulent; g. decur. in lines, very thin, torn, white; s. colour of p. glutinous, rooting; sp. ----.

P. and s. appear as if lacquered from the dried gluten.

*** Pileus glabrous.

=cochleatus=, Fr. P. 2-5 cm. tough, flaccid, irreg. depr. or infundib. reddish cinnamon; g. crowded, serrate, pinkish white; s. solid, length variable, several frequently more or less grown together, sulcate, glabrous; sp. ----.