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Pileus 5 inches across, convex, slightly depressed in the centre, 
dry, covered (except the extreme margin) with hexagonal crowded 
warts, tawny, tan-coloured, sometimes very deeply fissured. Stem 4 
inches high, or more, varying much in thickness, attenuated down- 
wards, brownish. Tubes rose-coloured, decurrent. Substance rather 
tough. 
T am unable to speak positively of the affinities of this species, but 
it appears to be allied to B. alutarius and B. felleus. 
397. B. scrobiculatus, n. s.; pileo convexo fusco-purpureo subglauco- 
pruinoso ; stipite incurvo grosse reticulato fusco ; tubulis brevibus pal- 
lide fusco-purpureis. Hook. fil., Ser. 3, No. 8. 
Has. On soil in open places. Moflong, Khassya. June 29, 1850. 
Inodorous. Pileus convex, very fleshy, rather tough, 25-3 inches 
across, dry, deep purple-brown, with a somewhat glaucous bloom; 
flesh white, shaded with patches of purple-brown, very dark immedi- 
ately beneath the cuticle. Stem 3 inches high, $-1 inch thick, atte- 
nuated below or clavate, dark brown, very coarsely reticulated. Tubes 
pale purple-brown, short, decurrent. reg id 
This is very nearly allied to B. ustalis, Berk., but differs in its more 
convex pileus, incurved stem, but especially in the purplish, not ochra- 
ceous pores. That, moreover, grows on the trunks of trees, and is 
tomentose rather than pruinose. 
398. Strobilomyces nigricans, n. s.; minor; pileo convexo expanso 
obtusissimo, centro verrucis hexagonis exasperato, margine floccoso - 
squamoso ; contextu subsuberoso ; stipite solido subæquali flexuoso flo- 
eoso-squamoso. Hook. fil., Ser. 8, No. 4. Tas. VL . 
Haz. In woods.  Kala-Panee, Khassya, 5000 feet. June 27,  ——— 
1850. e 
. Inodorous.  Pileus 23 inches across, convex, without any umbo, 
dry, of a dark purple-brown, as is the whole plant, inclining more or 
less to black, rough in the centre, with small hexagonal warts; the 
margin, which is thin, shaggy with floccose scales. Stem flexuous, 
scarcely 2 inches high, 4 an inch thick, shaggy like the margin of the 
pileus, solid, nearly equal. Pores adnate, middle-sized, tough, rather 
long. 
This is a smaller species than the others, and tough like a Polyporus. 
* Hydnum auriscalpium, L. Hook. fil., Ser. 3, No. 21. 
Has. On fir-cones. Myrung, Khassya, 6000 feet. July, 1850. 
