328 _ CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. . Hydnum, 
is constantly to be found in Norfolk and Suffolk, in pine groves” 
ona gravelly soil, of a sufficient age to bear cones plentifully. 
On these, in a state of decay, and on no other part of the plant 
have I found this Hydnum. Mr. Woopwarp. Stem solid, 
brown, tapering upwards, rather hairy, 14 to 2 inches high, 
‘thick as_a crow quill. Pileus kidney-shaped, brown, faintly 
marked with concentric stripes, somewhat hairy, from 1-3d to % 
of an inch over.  Prick/es grey, conical, pointed. 
Under fir trees at Pendarvis, Cornwall. Mr. Sracknouse. 
Qn old rotten cones, and decayed branches and leaves of firs 
lying half buried in the ground. In asmallplantation of Scotch 
pines, called Hardy’s Grove, near Norwich. Rosg, 16.—[Pine 
Groves, frequent. Mr, Woopwarp. ] Sept. Oct. 
coralloi’des, Hyp. (Scop.) Stem whitish, very much branched: 
branches flatted, the ends bent down, Dicks. 19. 
Fl.dan, 450-Bull. 390-Scheff. 142-—Mich. 64. 2-Clus, appe 
alt. 18=Ger. em. 1582. 4—Park, 1323, 241-Sterb, 27s 
G, at Pp 244, . eat é 
Large, sitting, tufted and branched, yellow white, not lea-— 
thery. Prickles slender; branches towards the ends pendent. 
When young very like a cauliflower. Butrrarp. Stem branch- 
ed, fleshy, white; branches roundish, thick, nearly horizontal, 
dividing into other smaller branches, the extremities very much 
_ subdivided, Pileus none. Prickles awl-shaped, crooked, paral- 
lel and bundled. Scuzrr. : 
. ~ Hollow trunks-of-trees near Uxbridge, Aug. 
florifor‘me. Hyp. (Scuarr.) Stem black at the base, woody or 
‘leathery : pileus turban-shaped, velvety, purplish. 
Scheff. 146, and 147. f. 2; 6—Ball, 453. 2-Mr. Wood- 
ward also authorises me to refer to the following figures? 
Batsch 221. 222—Mich. 72. 4. 7-( Bull. 150, seems to be 
only a wariety of this species.) 
Stem swollen at the base, covered with a thick woolly down, 
and blackish ; substance like cork, very elastic when pressed. 
Frequently 2 or more plants united at the stem and sometimes 
the pilei are also united. Pi/eus at first flat, or very slightly 
convex, afterwards concave, covered with a fine down resembling 
velvet to the eye and to the touch; of a fine ash colour, soon 
turning to reddish purple, and at length black. Prickles shorty 
numerous, covering the inversely conical body of the pileus 
uite to the stem. Mr. Woopwarp. First published as an 
sh plant by Mr. Dickson, fase. 1. 19, to whom 1t was 
communicated by Mr, Woodward. ‘The general shape is covi- 
inch diameter at the bottom, and 1} to 3 inches 
