9 o An HISTORY of FUNGUSSES. 



CIV. HYDNUM Jlipitatum pileo dimidiato. Sp. PL 1648. Hudfon 

 gurifcalpum. Angl. 629. Echinus petiolo gracili later alt, pileolo piano 



obfcuro. Hall. Hiji. 2321. Rojs Elem. T. 3. Fig. 2. b. 

 Buxbaum Cent. 1. 7". $j. Fig. 1. Mich. Gen. P. 132. 

 7". 78. Fig. 8. Scbaf. Fung. T". 143. Bale t us pileo or- 

 biculari, &c. Gleditfch, P. 74. No.. 7. 



EARPICK HYDNUM. 



TAB. XC. 



^T^HE ftem is bulbous or fwollcn at the bafe, where it adheres 

 •*■ to the decaying cones of fir, without any vifible radical 

 fibres ; from the bafe the ftem gradually diminifhes in thick- 

 nefs, fometimes it is divided into two or three branches or 

 divifions, each whereof fuftains its own proper pileus ; it is co- 

 vered, from the bafe almoft to the top of the ftem, with upright, 

 ftiff, brown hairs, is of a dark fufcous brown colour, and a 

 tough dry elaftic fubftance; the height in a full grown plant 

 about two inches. 



The pileus is fometimes circular, but more frequently ob- 

 long, femicircular, or kidney-fhaped. The ftem often placed 

 out of the centre, fometimes at one fide ; it is flat or convex, 

 the centre fometimes elevated, fometimes depreffed, always of 

 a dark brown colour, and a dry tough fubftance ; the under fide 

 a little paler; the fpines are dry, tough, hard, unequal in 

 length, and of a brown colour. 



Grows under fir trees, in plantations about Halifax, in 

 Augufl: and September. 



In a natural arrangement, will not the Hydtii and Boleti 

 touch each other, between this plant and the Boletus tomentofus ? 



