. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. i64 LIX. Lenzites betulina. One-fourth natural size. Lenzites. times simple, sometimes branched and often anastomosing, about 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, dingy white^ edge acute. Dimidiate, sessile. It varies solitary and casspitoso-imbricated. The margin is of the same colour. Stumps, logs, &c., chiefly birch. Common in England. Rare in Scot- land. Perennial. Deeply grooved concentrically. Often green with minute Algce. Often quite re- supinate, and then very deceptive. Name—bet it la, birch. Fr. JMouogr
. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. i64 LIX. Lenzites betulina. One-fourth natural size. Lenzites. times simple, sometimes branched and often anastomosing, about 6 mm. (3 lin.) broad, dingy white^ edge acute. Dimidiate, sessile. It varies solitary and casspitoso-imbricated. The margin is of the same colour. Stumps, logs, &c., chiefly birch. Common in England. Rare in Scot- land. Perennial. Deeply grooved concentrically. Often green with minute Algce. Often quite re- supinate, and then very deceptive. Name—bet it la, birch. Fr. JMouogr. \\. p. 246. Hym. Fur. p. 493. Berk. Out. p. 228. t. 15. / 3. C. Hbk: n. 696. S. Mycol. Scot, n. 660. Ag. Linn.—Fl. Dan. t. 1555. B. with darker gills. Sow. t. 182. Seller/, t. 57 is a handsome form. 2. L. flaccida Fr.—Pileus at first whitish, then dingy, with zones whol- ly of the same colour, coriaceous, thin, scarcely 2 mm. (i lin.) thick, unequal, easily bent, strigoso- hairy. Gills thick, firm, straight, very broad, crowded, simple or branched, with shorter ones intermixed, at first shining white, then becoming pale. The gills are never anastomosing, but here and there obfurcate, , towards the base. Commonly taken for L. betulina, but wholly different. On stumps. Frequent in England. y*—ftaccidus, flaccid. Fr. ^lonogr. p. 246. Hym. Eur. p. 493. Berk. Out. p. 228. C. Hbk. n. 697. Ag. Bull. t. 394. Bolt. t. 158. ** On wood of trees with leaves like needles. 3. L. ssepiaria Fr.—Pileus cent. (1-3 in.) broad, yellow- tawny when young (remaining so at the margin when full grown), date brown when full grown, becoming black when old, corky- coriaceous, hard, convex becoming plane, sometimes orbicular, more frequently extended longitudinally, zoned, strigoso-tomen- tose, at length squamulose and pitted ; flesh tawny. Gills extended to the base, very rigid and firm, branched, more or less anasto- mosing, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) broad, yellowish when in vigour,
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