1919^ The Hydnums of IN'okth Caeolina 179 



tasteless, but with a faint odor resembling that of preserved figs; 

 when dry it is very soft, light and fibrous and if wet and pressed be- 

 tween the fingers it has a gummy feel. 



Spines dense, crowded, slender, 2.5 mm. long at base, 1 mm. long 

 near margin, whitish then light pinkish-bufP, extending dowaiward 

 on the resupinate portion. 



Spores said by Banker to be oblong, smooth, gi*anular, hyalin, 2-2.5 

 X 4.5-5m, very transparent with one or more dark granules. 



A plant very like the above was sent to Fries by Curtis and named 

 by the former Uydnum f Habile. Lloyd thinks he has recognized the 

 latter species in a plant sent to him from Xew York {Letter 65, p. 7). 

 From his description of the flesh, which is of the same nature as that 

 of Poly poms sulpliureus, our plant is not that species, as in the latter 

 the plant is composed of very loosely woven parallel fibers and is not 

 mealy. Also see Lloyd's Letter 66, p. 10, for comparison of //. pul- 

 cherrimum and H. septentrionale. Banker thinks aS'. friable and S. 

 pidcherrimiim the same (]\rycologia 5:2!)-}:. 1913). 



1254. On a rotting oak stump in grove back of President's house, September 

 24, 1914. Two photos. No spores obtainable. 



2. Steccherinum Rhois (Schw.) Banker 



Plates 12 and 27. 



Plants elastic, tough, shell or kidney-shaped, sessile by a constricted 

 base, sometimes confluent, up to 3.5 cm. by 2 em. in size; surface 

 densely felted — hairy, the felt collapsed in places, distinctly zoiiatc, 

 color a rather light grayish bro^\^l with zones of diiferent shades, the 

 marginal half somewhat darker; margin sterile for about \U mm. 

 The color and appearance is so like that of the lighter shaded plants 

 of Lenzites betulina as to be indistinguishable in ])assing. C ontext of 

 two distinct parts, a dense, firm, elastic layer, which is about 1{> mm. 

 thick and colored like the teeth, and a soft, (l(Miscly felted upper layiM-, 

 colored like tlie surface and varying from less than ^/o to as nuich as 

 1.5 mm. in thickness. 



Spines ochraceous tawny (BidgAvay), crowded, short (1-1.5 cm. 

 long), tapering somewhat towards the tip, but truncate and more or 

 less blnnt nt the ends, whicli are fimbriated on tlieir niariiins and 



