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HISTORY of FUNGUSSES, 



GROWING about HALIFAX. 



GENUS III. 



HYDNUM. 



CII HYDNUM Jlipltatum, pileo convexo imbricato. Sp. PI. 1647. 



' Hud/on Angl. 628. Flora Danica, T. 176. Erinaceus 



efculentus albus craJJ'us. Mich. Gen. P. 132. T. 72. Fig. 2. 



Echinus petiolatus albicans Juperne fquamofus. Hall. Hijt. 



2324. 



IMBRICATED HYDNUM. 



TAB. LXXXVJir. 



/ "T" V HE root confifts of a few fibres, ifluing from the club- 

 •*• fhaped bafe of the item. 



The Item is white, folid, grofs, brittle, of a fpongy fub- 

 ftance, and three inches high; — in full grown plants the thick- 

 nefs of one's thumb, and fometimes a number of {terns adhere 

 together by their fibrous bafes. 



The under fide of the pileus is thickly fet with foft prickles, 

 pointing downwards ; thefe are white, and of various lengths, 

 from one to three or four lines ; they are of a tender, foft fub- 

 flance. 



The pileus is at firir. fmooth and globular, afterwards be- 

 comes convex, fometimes lobed, and gafhed on the margin, the 

 fides of the lobes lying over each other; but more frequently 

 only waved or undulated at the margin. I have not found the 

 furface to be much fcaled or imbricated, though I have been 

 long acquainted with the plant. The pileus thick and flefhy ; 

 and the whole plant is white, and of a brittle, fpongy fub- 

 ftance. The figures in Vaill. Paris, T. 14. Fig. 6, 7, 8. feem 

 to have been taken frcm this plant. 



Grows in a deep narrow lane, by which you afcend the 

 wood at North-Dean, near Halifax, in September and October. 



