GUIDE TO THE MODELS OF FUNGI. 



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holds as big as his fists, and were in so complete a state ot decay 

 that some of the planks had dropped from their places. 



A writer in the European Magazine for 1811 describes a ship 

 attacked by dry-rot at Woolwich, which was in so bad a state that 

 the decks sunk under a man's weight, and the orange- and brown- 

 coloured fungus was hanging in the shape of inverted cones from 

 deck to deck. The dry-rot of oak-built vessels is Polyponis hybridiis 

 B. & Br. 



ORDER III.— HYDNEiE. 



In the Hydnece the gills of the Agaricinece and the tubes of the 

 Polyporece are represented by spines, teeth, tubercles, crests, or 

 papillae. 



GENUS XVII.—HYDNUM L. 



Spines awl-shaped. There are forty-eight British species, two 

 only of which are represented by models. 



135. Hydnum imbricatum L.— Pileus generally depressed, rich, 

 dark, rufescent brown, sometimes plane but generally broken up into 

 coarse, floccose patches; flesh firm, hard, 

 grey-white or brownish-white ; spines long, 

 decurrent, greyish or brownish-white ; stalk 

 short, even, often attenuated towards base. 



A large plant found in pine woods, 

 rare but sometimes locally abundant. Said 

 to be edible ; but tough, bitter, and dis- 

 agreeable. 



136. Hydnum repandum L. — Pileus 

 fleshy, lobed and repand, smooth ; spines 

 long, unequal; stalk central or nearly so, 

 irregular. _ 



Common in mixed woods, where it "^ ^s&i^^'^ 



grows singly, or in clusters or rings ; the Fig. 49.— Hydnum repandum L. 



colour of the entire plant is buff-white or (0"«-'h"-d natural size.) 

 ochraceous-white. Esculent ; requires four hours' slow stewing. 

 Has been eaten raw in very thin slices with sandwiches. 



ORDER IV.— THELEPHORE^. 



In the Thelephorece there are neither gills, tubes, nor spines ; 

 the hymenium is even, rarely ribbed, or spuriously papillose. All 

 the species are either waxy or coriaceous. 



GENUS XVIII.—CRATERELLUS Fr. 



All the species are terrestrial, stipitate, furnished with a 

 pileus ; hymenium waxy-membranaceous, continuous with the stem, 



