Lentinus vulpinus. Fr.
Strong-Scented Vulpinus.
Plate XXVI. Figure 181.—Lentinus vulpinus.
One-third natural size.
Vulpinus is from vulpes, a fox.
This is quite a large, massive plant, growing in a sessile and imbricated manner. It has appeared in large quantities for the past four years on an elm, very slightly decayed, but in quite a damp and dark place. The reader will get some idea of the size of the whole plant in Figure 181 if he will consider each pileus to be five to six inches broad. They are built up one on top of another, overlapping each other like shingles on a roof.
The pileus is fleshy but tough, shell-shaped, connate behind, longitudinally rough, costate, corrugate, tan-colored, and the margin is strongly incurved.
The gills are broad, nearly white, flesh-colored near the base, coarsely toothed.