1919^ The Hydnums of North Carolina 173 



1829. Rocky soil by path in woods north of Meeting of the Waters, September 



19, 1915. Photo with 1837. 

 1837. In mixed woods just across the branch from Indian Spring, Battle's 



Park. September 20, 1915. Photo. ■ 

 1858. On ground in hardwoods, by Battle's branch, near Strowd's pasture. 



September 22, 1915. 



Asheville. Beardslee. 



7. Hydnum fuligineo-violaceum Kalch. 



Beardslee finds plants at Aslieville that are larger than our H. 

 Underwoodii and that have a greenish base. They have been referred 

 by Bresadola to //. ftdigineo-violaceum^ and as Beardslee thinks them 

 different from H. Uiiderivoodii it seems best to follow Bresadola. In 

 the dried state Beardslee's plants are very like ours and I can make 

 out no difference in the spores. Plants from Bresadola at the New 

 York Botanical Garden, determined by him as H. fuligineo-violaceum, 

 (see discussion under H. Underwoodii) do not seem to me to be just 

 like the Asheville plants. Beardslee's description follows : 



"Pileus 5-12 cm. broad, convex, becoming depressed at the center, 

 and irregularly lobed on the margin, brown or tan, sometimes with a 

 shade of dull red, surface floccose, soon breaking up into small, rather 

 narrow scales; margin thin, fertile, inflexed and irregular. Taste 

 bitter ; odor rather strong and not agreeable. 



"Teeth small, short, crowded, gray, with the tips white, decurrent. 



"Stem rather long, attenuate downward, rough above with rudi- 

 mentary teeth, white tomentose at the base, which is pointed and be- 

 comes dark green within. 



"Spores subglobose, 6-7/^, tuberculate. 



"I find this everywhere in our woods. Some forms are smaller 

 than the typical forms and seem to present differences. All that I 

 find have the short, crowded teeth, the bitter taste and usually the 

 greenish color at the base of the stipe. I cannot distinguish more 

 than the one species. My plants have been submitted to Bresadola 

 who refers them as above, but says that they vary toward //. Feiuii- 

 cum. This is not the plant which Banker refers to II. fidigineo-vio- 

 laceum." * In a letter of IMarch 17, Beardslee says furtlier: "In my 

 studies of it I have found two forms, one small like vours, and anotlier 



*See foot-note on ixitre 172. 

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