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have not found it and take the following from Banker (Memoirs 

 T. B. a 12 : ]^o. 2, p. 140. 1906) : 



"Plants terrestrial, mesopodous, yellowish, 6-10 cm. high; pileus 

 convex to subplane, more or less uneven, irregular, 3-10 cm. wide; 

 margin subrepand, sterile; surface densely velvety tomentose to stri- 

 gose hairy, in the latter case the hairs forming more or less anasto- 

 mosing ridges or crests, the hairs usually branching, disc often floc- 

 cose, color tan or ochre yellow, at margin lighter to whitish ; substance 

 fleshy to somewhat tough, pale brown; stem stout, solid, subcylindri- 

 cal or tapering somewhat to the base, subvelutinus or with spine-like 

 crests of strigose hairs, tawny, 1-5 cm. long by 1-2 cm. wide; teeth 

 slender, terete, even, obtuse, decurrent, tawny olive to fuscous be- 

 coming dark brown with whitish tips in drying, '3-6 mm. long,' when 

 dried 2-3 mm. long by 0.1-0.3 mm. wide, 2 or 3 to one millimeter; 

 spores subglobose, tuberculate with small warts, 4-5/* wide, 'tawny 

 olive on paper' ; taste acrid. Ground in mixed woods. Aug.-Sept." 



5. Hydnum scabripes Pk. 



Sarcodon scahrlpes (Pk.) Banker 



Plates 5, 6, axd 27. 



Large, irregular, fleshy plants with eccentric stems. Cap up to 

 14 cm. wide, convex, depressed in center, quite irregular and excen- 

 trically expanded, surface smooth, leathery, a pale flesh color. Flesh 

 pallid white, but turning brownish-flesh color when cut, soft, tender 

 and with a mild pleasant taste, about 2 cm. thick at stem, the margin 

 very thin, free and extending about 3 mm. beyond the teeth as in 

 H. imbricatum, sharply bent do^vn. 



Spines whitish at first then deep snuff brown, except for the ashy- 

 white tips, irregularly decurrent. They are about 8 mm. long near 

 the stem, shorter towards the margin, the tips rather bluntly rounded. 



Stem eccentric, heavy, thick, about 4-6 cm. long, and 2.5-3 cm. 

 thick, enlarged and bent at the base and frequently giving rise there 

 to small secondary, aborted plants, surface smooth except where 

 marked by the descending spines which extend down the stem on some 

 sides and not on others, often becoming so short as to be mere dots. 



