[Larger illustration]

Panus torulosus (Fries) Fries

is a tough, funnel-shaped, yellowish cinnamon fungus with oblong-ellipsoid, small, hyaline spores measuring 5-6 × 3 µm and changing yellowish not bluish grey in iodine solutions.

Panellus stipticus (Fries) Karsten

forms tiers of pale cinnamon-brown, more or less kidney-shaped, scurfy caps on old wood and has egg-shaped, hyaline, small spores measuring 4 × 2-3 µm which become bluish grey in iodine solutions.

Lentinellus cochleatus (Fries) Karsten

forms irregular lobed and twisted, flattened or funnel-shaped dirty brownish caps with a fragrant smell, toothed gill-edges and almost spherical, small, hyaline spores measuring 5 × 4 µm which become bluish grey in iodine solutions.

Lentinellus apparently has very close affinities to Auriscalpium, ‘the Ear pick fungus’, ([p. 158]) both in the structure of the spores and the anatomy of the fruit-body.

Lentinus lepideus (Fries) Fries

forms very tough fruit-bodies with convex or flattened, pale yellowish caps and stems ornamented with dark tawny or brown scales. The stem is often eccentric and buried in cracks or soft rotten wood on which it grows; the spores are non-amyloid. It grows on pine stumps but also on decaying or unprotected railway sleepers and wooden paving blocks, joists, etc., made of conifer wood. When the fungus fruits in a darkened environment, such as a cellar, the mushroom-like fruit-bodies are not produced but are replaced by slender branched structures similar to the ‘Stag’s horn’ or ‘Candle-snuff fungus’ ([p. 206]), or to certain of the Fairy Club fungi ([p. 172]). Similar growths have been recorded for Polyporus squamosus which grows on hard wood timber and is described in detail later ([p. 140]).