162 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



Slstotrcma spnthnJata, Sz., Car., ii. 993. 



On decayitiy; avocmL Forming j^atclies 1-2 in. across, 

 spines 1-2 lines long. In some specimens flattened and 

 acicnlar spines are mixed. 



Spines, however, scarcely orange, yet agreeing with 

 autlientic specimens from Schweinilz; separable. (Berk.) 



Hydnum multiforme. B. & Br. 



Yer}- pale buft' or whitisli, at first even and resembling a 

 Corticium, at length producing spines here and there, often 

 in clnsters, either acute or more or less flattened and fim- 

 briated ; spores colourless, subgiobose or very broadly pip- 

 shaped, obliquely apicnlate, 9 x 6-7 yu,. 



H?/dnum multiforme, Berk. A: Broome, Ann. Nat. His., n. 

 1G87; Stev., Brit. Fiing., p. 244. 



On dead wood. Eather broadly eftused, inseparable, 

 margin often thin and indeterminate, waxy and becoming 

 cracked wlien dry. It is almost certain that the j^rescnt 

 species is a irue Corticium, the hymenium is produced on the 

 plane, waxy surface, and not on the spines, which are in 

 some i^ortions of the type specimen absent altogether, and 

 when present, are sterile, irregular, and altogether morbid 

 productions, from 1-2 lines in lengtli. 



Hydnum anomialum. B. & Br. 



Pallid light yellow ; stratum thin, gelatinous ; tcetli in 

 the form of granules, then stipitate and obtTiselj' divided 

 upwards ; spores globose, shortly pedicellate. 



Ilydnnm anomalum, ]>erk. tt Broome, Ann. Nat. Ilist., n. 

 14:5S, witli fig. ; Stev., lirit. Fung., p. 244. 



In the inside of a very rotten ash-tree. Substance of teeth 

 tough, with large ovate or globose vesicles immersed in it. 

 (B. & Br.) 



I cannot find a trace of an^-thing like the above on the 

 piece of wood that represents the type s})ecimcn. Apparently 

 not a good Uijdmnn ; may possibly prove to be a resu})inate 

 form allied to Trcmclhnhin, and the ovate or globose vesicles 

 in tlie spines to be basidia. 



Hydnum melleum. B. Sc Br. 

 lloncy-coloui-, effused, thin, teeth acute, sometimes divided 



