632 HYDNUM 



5 cm., whitish, or concolorous, firm, smooth. Spines cinereous white, 

 10-12 mm. long, decurrent, subulate, thin. Flesh pale, then huffish or 

 reddish, thick, firm, sometimes zoned. Spores reddish brown, verru- 

 cose, oval or globose, 5-6 x 5p,, 1-guttulate. Taste bitter. Edible. 

 Coniferous woods. Sept. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



2139. H. squamosum (Schaeff.) Fr. Schaeff. Icon. t. 273. 



Squamosum, scaly. 



P. 3-8 cm., rufous fuscous, convex, gibbous, then irregular and de- 

 pressed, smooth, breaking up into irregular, fibrillose, chestnut coloured 

 scales. St. 3-4 x 1-1-5 fj,, white, attenuated downwards, smooth. 

 Spines greyish fuscous, apex whitish, thin. Flesh whitish, thick, firm. 

 Spores "yellowish tawny, subglobose, 7/z, granular" Quel. Taste 

 pleasant. Edible. Coniferous woods. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



2140. H. scabrosum Fr. Scabrosum, rough. 

 P. 34 cm., umber ferruginous, turbinate, then plane, very convex 



beneath, tomentose, then rough with fasciculate flocci, which form 

 minute crowded scales. St. 2-5 x 2-5 cm., cinereous, blackish at the 

 base, attenuated downwards, round, or compressed, dotted with the 

 rudimentary decurrent spines. Spines fuscous ferruginous, apex 

 whitish, 8 mm. long, decurrent, subulate, equal, crowded. Flesh white, 

 becoming blackish at the base of the stem, very thick, firm. Spores 

 reddish brown, verrucose, globose, 4-5/u,. Pine woods. Sept. Rare. 

 (v.v.) 



2141. H. laevigatum (Swartz) Fr. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 138. 



Laevigatum, made smooth. 



P. 513 cm., greyish umber, at first often tinged with fuscous purple, 

 somewhat irregular, convex, then plane, or depressed, smooth, then 

 breaking up into minute squamules; margin incurved, pubescent. 

 St. 4-6 x 2-3 cm., greyish, or lilac colour, often excentric, subequal, 

 somewhat glabrous. Spines umber fuscous, apex whitish, 1-2-5 cm. 

 long, decurrent, large. Flesh whitish grey, pale lilac purple when young 

 and broken, thick, compact. Spores "somewhat fuscous, angularly 

 globose, tuberculose, 6-7 x 4-5/x" Bres. Taste somewhat bitter. 

 Smell strong, unpleasant, " d'immortelle sauvage when dried" Quel. 

 Edible. Pine woods. Aug. Nov. Rare. 



2142. H. acre Quel. Quel. Soc. bot. (1877), no. 36, t. 6, fig. 1. 



Acre, sharp. 



P. 10-12 cm., light yellow, then olivaceous, or bistre, plane, shaggy, 

 velvety. St. 3 x 2 cm., cream olivaceous, oval, often branched, villose. 

 Spines white, then brown, apex light yellow, decurrent, thin. Flesh 

 light yellow, watery. Spores light yellow, spinulose, 6/u,. Taste very 

 pungent, bitter and peppery. Poisonous. Pine, and chestnut woods, 

 and sandy places. Rare. 



