GENUS III. H YD NUM. 89 



HYDNUM Jiipitatum, pileo convexo loe-vi flexuofo . Sp.Pl. 1647. cm. 

 Hudfon Angl. 628. Echinus petiolatus fubrufus, petiolo repandui 

 levi, Hall. Hiji. 2325. Erinaceus color is pallide citrei. 

 Dillen. C. Gi/s. P. 188. T. 1. Erinaceus efculentus albus 

 craJJ'us. Mich. Gen. P. 132. T. 72. Fig. 3. Hedivig 

 Cript. T. 37. Fig. 212, &c. 



FLAT HYDNUM. 



TAB. LXXXIX. 



'TpHE root is fibrous; the ftem folid, brittle, crooked or 

 -*• bowed, nearly of equal thicknefs, of a pale cinnamon 

 colour, four or five inches high, and often inferted into the 

 pileus, towards one fide, or not juftly in the centre. The items 

 frequently rife in clufters of four or five, adhering by thebafes, 

 and fuftaining plants of various fizes, which prefs upon each 

 other, and thereby become much difiorted. 



The foft fpines or prickles underneath, are almoft always 

 placed obliquely, fo as to lay over one another in an imbricated 

 order; fometimes they are fimple, fometimes divided ; conflantly 

 of a bright cinnamon colour, and a foft brittle fubftance. 



The pileus is flat and fmooth, feels to the touch like vel- 

 lum ; the rim rudely lobed, finuated or lafciniated, and con- 

 flantly of a pleafant bright cinnamon colour ; the flefhy or 

 internal part, is white and brittle. 



This plant grew in great abundance in Lee-Bank-Shroggs, 

 in September, 1786; where I gathered the fpecimens here 

 figured and defcribed. 



In one fpecimen, I obferved a dawny matter adhering to the 

 ftem and fpines ; which looked like the fragments of a curtain, 

 but I could not be certain that it was fuch. 



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