1919^ The Hydxums of Xokth Capolixa 183 



Spores (of jSTo. 1341) light vinaceous brown; roughly spherical to 

 elliptic, strongly angular, a large oil drop, 3.7-4.3 x 4-5m. For the 

 original description of this species see Mycologia 6 :194. 1915. 



1341. In pine woods by path leading to Meeting of the Waters from road 



east of cemetery, October 14, 1914. 

 1869. Growing in Battle's Park, near branch, in pine woods, September 



22, 1915. 

 1951. Under Pinus inops on hillside north of King's milldam, October 31, 



1915. Photo. Exactly like 1341. Odor of fenugreek, taste strongly 



peppery. One plant 15 cm. in diameter. 

 1968. Growing in pines by a woods road near Mason farm, November 7, 1915. 



2. Hydnellum velutinum Fr.* 

 Hydnum spongiosipes Pk. 



Plates 16 and 28. 



Cap about 3-7.5 cm. broad, often confluent with others, convex or 

 plane, or often slightly depressed in center, usually irregular in shape 

 with the surface more or less grooved, pitted and complicated by 

 eruptions, but without the rough and harshly complicated centers of 

 H. scrohiculatum, without zones or with a few faint zones of shades ; 

 surface finely tomentose, plush-like when young and also in age unless 

 too much wet or handled ; color after maturity cinnamon brown all 

 over with a lighter sheen from the surface tomentum when quite fresh, 

 blackish-brow^l wlien bruised, the margin not lighter except wlieu 

 wet; when quite young the cap tomentum is nearly white, and the 

 margin remains whitish (very light fleshy-brown) as long as it is 

 growing, the older central part soon becoming dark. Flesh of two 

 textures, a soft spongy upper layer about 1-6 mm. thick, colored like 

 the surface, and a thin, darker, tough, and much harder lower layer ; 

 when fresh the flesh is full of a clear watery juice which in our plants 

 is not at all ])iiik; taste and odor not strong, hardly disagreeable, 

 somewhat like rotting wood, when young and fresh faintly like rij)<> 

 cucumbers, no fenugreek or pig-pen odor. 



*Hydnelm'M Ntttalmi Banker. 



A jilant collected by Atkinson in tlio mountains of North Carolina is rofcrrrd to thi-t sjiprios 

 by Banker, who says that it "differs in some respects from the type hut in chnrnctem that 

 seem to be accounted for l>y the fact tliat the plant was old and dead when collected." We 

 have not seen the [ilnnt. but the species is said to differ from U. rrliilinum "in the form of 

 the pileus, in the suhrucose not toinenlosi' surface, and in the Iouk cajiillary teeth." For the 

 full descrij)tion, see Memoirs Torr. Bot. Club 12, No. 2:155. lUOO. 



