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Type Loc. : European. 



Reported from Massachusetts (Seymour) ; New Jersey (Ellis) ; 

 Montana (Tweedy) ; New York (Peck) ; Rhode Island (Bennett) ; 

 Pennsylvania (Schweinitz) ; Maryland (Banning) ; West Virginia 

 (Nuttall) ; South Carolina (Schweinitz); Ohio (Lloyd); Ken- 

 tucky (Morgan). This distribution can be regarded only as pro- 

 visional as the specimens are found, so far as examined, to vary 

 too greatly among themselves. For example, Tweedy's Montana 

 specimen is a gray-brown plant with the pileus broken up into 

 large, thick, imbricate plates, while Morgan's Kentucky plant is 

 yellowish-brown with the pileus covered with numerous fine thin 

 scales. There seems to have been a disposition among collec- 

 tors to refer everything with a scaly pileus to this species. It 

 seems probable, however, that we have several distinct species 

 masquerading under this name. It is especially desirable that 

 careful observations should be made o( fresh specimens of this 

 plant, with reference to the character of the scales, size, arrange- 

 ment, and structure ; also as to the teeth, length, size, color, and 

 whether closely set or not ; in addition to the usual points to be 

 observed in the fleshy fungi. 



13. Hydnum scabripes Peck, Reg. Rep. 48: 13. 1896 

 Type Loc. : Elizabethtown, N. Y. (Peck). 



The plant has not been reported since its first discovery by 

 Peck. It is a very peculiar and well-marked species, large and 

 conspicuous, with pileus 9-12 cm. broad, pinkish gray in color; 

 teeth decurrent ; stem 9-12 cm. long, scabrous-dotted. 



14. Hydnum vellereum Peck, Reg. Rep. 50 : no. 1897 



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Type Loc. : Port Jefferson, N. Y. (Peck). 



This plant has been found also in Rensselaer Co., N. Y. by 

 the writer. It forms shapeless crusts spread over the substratum 

 of fallen leaves and often assumes nearly a resupinate character. 

 It somewhat resembles H. albonigrum but is dryer in substance in 

 the fresh condition and the color of the interior is much lighter, 

 ashy-gray or brownish. It appears to grow in dryer situations 

 than the former plant. Both species emit a strong heavy odor in 

 drying which lasts for months. In H. vellereum this odor is quite 

 suggestive of slippery elm. 



