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At first of a delicate fibrillose substance, which gradually ac- 

 quires a waxy covering, on which the elongated acute yellow prickles 

 are sparingly scattered. 



• 184. Hydnum (Resupinatum) fascicularia. B. % C. — Totum 

 resupinatum ceraceum pallidum ; aculeis fasciculatis brevibus ob- 

 tusis quandoque apice ciliatis. No. 4725. Car. Inf. On Nyssa. 

 (No. 565, 1546, Ray.) 



Widely effused, very thin, waxy, inseparable from the matrix, 

 pallid, but varying in tint ; prickles fasciculate, short, obtuse, some- 

 times ciliated at the top as in Kneiffia. No. 6105. Alabama, 

 Peters. Specimens on Carya, distributed as II. areolatum are 

 perhaps an advanced state of this species, in which the prickles are 

 collected in groups, and approaching 11. udum. 



* Hydnum (Resupinatum) udum. Fr. — No. 2701. Car. Inf. 

 On Acer. 4925. Car. Sup. On oak. (Rav. 935, 1546.) 



* Hydnum (Resupinatum) Himantia. ScJiwein. — No. 6106. 

 Alabama, Peters. On Fraxinus. Penns., Dr. jMichener. 



- 185. Hydnum (Resupinatum) Cookei. B.— Tenue, subliberum, 

 subiculo mcmbranaceo, hie illic byssoideo, iibrilloso ; hymenio 

 isabellino ; aculeis brevibus obtusis. No. 6051. Car. Inf. On 

 Liquidambar. 



Thin, membranaceous, more or less separable from the matrix, here 

 and there bysoid or fibrillose ; hymenium of a brownish-buff, with 

 scattered, short, obtuse, small prickles. 



• * Hydnum (Resupinatum) pithy ophilum. B. if C. — Kew 

 Gard. Misc. i. p. 235. Resupinate, effused, subiculum very thin, 

 byssoid, farinaceous ; prickles ochraceous, compressed, toothed, and 

 lacerated above. No. 1501, 2060, 4811. Car. Inf. No. 5603. Con- 

 nect., C. Wright. No. 4811, was originally named H. mellitum, but 

 it appeared afterwards that it was discoloured by poison. 



• * Hydnum (Resupinatum) ciliolatum. B. # C. 1. c. — Resupinate, 

 thin, orbicular, scarcely separable from the matrix ; prickles short, 

 compressed-, floccoso-ciliate. No. 1464, 2204. Car. Inf. No. 1779, 

 Rav. On Magnolia glauca. 



*. 186. Hydnum (Resupinatum) laeticolor. B. $ C.— Late effu- 

 sum, margine denium separabili subbyssoideo ; aculeis lajte och- 

 raceis compressis subvelutinus apice dentato-lasceratis. No. 2930. 

 Car. Inf. 4647, 5166. Alabama, Beaumont. On oak. (No. 894. 

 Car. Inf. Rav.) 



Effused for several inches, at length more or less separable at the 

 margin, where it is slightly byssoid or tomentose ; hymenium red- 

 dish-ochre ; prickles compressed, somewhat velvety, toothed and 

 lacerated at the apex. A fine species. 



* Hydnum (Resupinatum) mucidum. Fr. — (No. 1503. Rav.) 

 No. 6058. On Liquidambar. 6103. On Carya. Alabama, Peters. 

 The latter is infested with a Sepedonium. 



