380 HYDNACE^E Hydnum 



stiffly-downy, white, shaded, pale tawny ; marg. thin, lobed. 

 Sp. variable in size, \ to v in., tawny. 

 Subimbricate. Oct. Diam. if in. 



1714. H. multiplex Fr. (from the many folds of the pileus ; multits, 



many, plecto, to twist) a c. 

 P. thin, leathery, deeply folded, spathulate, velvety, rich brown. 



Sp. -jV in. long, crowded, very slender, grey, shaded brownish. 



Flesh bright brown, paler than P. 

 Imbricate. Group 4^ in. in diam. 



1715. H. oehraeeum Pers. (from the ochreous colour) a b c. 



Sub. thin. P. when present, thin, pale ochreous, zoned, usually 

 resupinate or with marg. slightly upturned and forming more 

 or less perfect connate pilei. Sp. very small, somewhat 

 blunt, ochreous flesh-colour, orange-buff, sometimes fawn, rarely 

 dull crimson. 



Trunks, oak, branches, fir-leaves, bramble, apple, moss ; common. Oct.- 

 April. Diam. 5 in. Readily separating from matrix. 



RESUPINATE. 



1716. H. squalinum Fr. (from a fancied resemblance in the spines to 



sharks' teeth ; squalus, a shark) a c. 

 Sub. adnate, coriaceous, pale yellowish-fawn. Sp. entire, stout, 



compressed, rounded at apex, T 3 in. long, colour as Sub. 

 Trunks, beech. Diam. 2g in. 



1717. H. fuseoatrum Fr. (from the dusky-black clouding ; f^lscus, 



dusky, ater, black) a c. 



Sub. a thin film, glaucous, flocculoso-pruinose, salmon-umber ; 

 mid. darker ; or dark brown shading into sienna and brown- 

 ochre at marg. Sp. short, conico-subulate, acute, colour 

 as Sub. 



Rotten wood, birch, .beech, alder. Diam. 2^ in. 



1718. H. membranaeeum Bull, (from the membranous subiculum) 



a b c. 

 Snb. an effused waxy-membranous film, pale vinous sienna ; marg. 



lighter. Sp. awl-shaped, crowded, acute, short, darker 



than Sub. 

 Fallen sticks, pear ; frequent. Jan. Diam. 2^ in. 



1719. H. molluseum Fr. (mollis, soft, in reference to the thin 



subiculum). 



Sub. membranous, dry, readily separable from the matrix, whitish. 

 Sp. short, slender, reddish. 



Wood. Distinguished from 1718 by the dry white subiculum, separating 

 from the matrix. 



1720. H. Weinmannii Fr. (after J. A. Weinmann, mycologist) a b c. 

 Sub. effused, waxy-membranous, agglutinate, fawn-grey, pale 



slate, or umber and white. Sp. minute, acute, somewhat 



