Spores minutely echinulate, nearly globose, 5.6×7µ Morgan.
Ohio, Morgan; Wisconsin, Bundy.
I frequently found this species in North Carolina, growing from oak ties and standing oak timber. I did not notice distillation of rufescent drops from the cap. The soft flesh had good flavor. The gelatinous cuticle imparts its character to the dish. Mixed with Lentinus lepideus, a much tougher plant, which grows in great abundance in the same localities, it makes toothsome food.
P. lignati´lis Fr.—lignum, wood. Dingy whitish. Pileus 1–4 in. broad, rarely central, commonly more or less excentric, occasionally wholly lateral, often kidney-shaped, fleshy, thin, but compact and tough, fissile, convex then plane, obtuse and often umbilicate, flocculoso-pruinate, at length denuded with rain, repand, margin at first involute then expanded, undulato-lobed when luxuriant. Stem sometimes 2–3 in., sometimes 3–4 lines long (even obliterated), stuffed then hollow, always thin, unequal, curved, curved or flexuous, tough and flexile, whitish, everywhere pruinato-villous, rooting and somewhat tomentose at the base. Gills adnate, very crowded and narrow, unequal, divergent in the lobes, shining white. Fries.
Exceedingly variable, wholly inconstant in form; substance thin and pliant; commonly densely cespitose, but also single. Odor strong of new meal.
On wood, beech, etc. Stevenson.
Parasitic on a rotten plant of Polyporus annosus on elm. W.G.S.
White and grayish-white, margin faintly striate; white-spotted, odor distinctly farinaceous. C.M.
Spores 3–4µ long, Morgan, Cooke, W.G.S.; 4–5µ K.
Var. abscon´dens Pk.—obscure. New York, Peck, Rep. 31, 39.