206 Banker : A preliminary Contribution 



2b. Hydnum 



Myc. 2 : 95. 1799 



Icon. : Bolton, Geschichte pi. 89 ; Barla, Champ, de Prov. 

 de Nice pi. 39. f. 10-12 ; Britzelmayer, Hym. Siidb. Hydnei f. 

 5 ; Patouillard, Tab. analyt. Fung. / 14.7 ; Peck, Reg. Rep. 

 48: pi. 38./. 7-10. 



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Type Loc. : European. 



This has been reported from New England (Oakes) ; Maryland 

 (Banning) ; Pennsylvania and North Carolina (Schweinitz). 



The status of the species is doubtful and it seems best to re- 

 gard it as a variety of H. repandum from which it appears to differ 

 only in its more slender stem and in the reddish color of the pileus. 

 If it can show no more marked characteristics than these it should 

 hardly be given the dignity of a distinct species. Barla's figures, 

 op. cit. y show a marked scaly imbricate pileus ! Persoon in 

 Syn. Meth. Fung. 556, says: "Pileus obsolete et subtiliter 

 zonatus est." There seems to be no indication of either of these 

 features in our American plant. The name itself is preoccu- 

 pied by H. rufescens Schaeffer, Fung. Bav. et Pal. Icon. 4 : 

 95. //. 14.1. 1763, which seems to be even more clearly true 

 H. repandum. 



3. Hydnum albidum Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. Nat. Hist. 1 : 



10. 1887 



Icon. : Peck, Rep. Reg. 51 : pi. 5 6.f. i- 7 . 



Type Loc: Sandlake, Rensselaer Co., N. Y. (Peck). 



The species has been reDorted T KpIiVw «n1v f™m 



Middle 



bury, Vt. (Burt), since Peck first described it. It is probable 



that it is 



pandum from which it is not 



readily distinguished. While characteristically a smaller plant 

 than H. repandum (2-3 cm. broad), specimens of the latter are 

 often found equally as small. When fresh, its white color should 



H. 



? pandit m 



The most certain dis- 



— ^ £% *"* * ■-* * * ^^ *-* • 1 11 V* X X Jl v./ O L K* V-» X I CV X X A ^-* » *-r 



tinction seems to be in the spores which are about half the size of 



H. repandum 



form 



very desirable. 



very similar. Careful field observation of this plant is 



