634 HYDNTJM 



plane, irregular, striate, rigid, with little elevations at the disc, silky. 

 St. 1-5-3 cm. x 2-3 mm., black, enlarged at the apex, smooth. Spines 

 white, then flesh colour, -5-1 mm. long, slender, thin. Flesh violaceous, 

 or black, coriaceous, thin, firm, sometimes zoned. Spores white, glo- 

 bose, 2-5-3/n. Caespitose. Pine woods. Sept. Oct. Rare, (v.v.) 



2148. H. cyathiforme (Schaeff.) Fr. Schaeff. Icon. t. 139. 



KvaOos, a cup; forma, shape. 



P. 2-5-6 cm., pale cinereous, or lilac, with the margin white, plane, 

 then cup-shaped, or infundibuliform, sometimes zoned, silky, disc 

 subtomentose. St. 2-3 cm. x 5-8 mm., pale cinereous, often violet, 

 equal, smooth. Spines white, -5-1 mm. long, very slender. Flesh 

 white, becoming greyish or ferruginous, coriaceous, thin. Spores white, 

 echinulate, globose, 3/z, 1-guttulate. Often connate. Woods. Aug. 

 Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



**Spores coloured. 



2149. H. compactum (Pers.) Fr. Compactum, strongly built. 

 P. 2-5-15 cm., white, soon becoming olivaceous cinereous or fuscous, 



plane, flat, irregularly shaped, sometimes almost sessile, undulated, 

 tuberculose, densely covered with whitish down when young; margin 

 becoming bluish, lobed, waved, thick. St. 2-3 x 2-3-5 cm., tawny in- 

 clined to fuscous, irregularly shaped. Spines fuscous, apex pallid, 

 2-7 mm. long, decurrent, subulate. Flesh zoned with azure blue, in- 

 tervals between the zones whitish, somewhat blood red in the stem, corky, 

 compact, firm, very thick. Spores light reddish brown, minutely ver- 

 rucose, angularly globose, 4-5/x,, 1-guttulate. Often connate. Coni- 

 ferous woods, and moors. Aug. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2150. H. aurantiacum (A. & S.) Fr. Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 142. 



Aurantiacum, golden. 



P. 2-5-15 cm., whitish, soon orange yellow with a white margin, 

 turbinato-dilated, with small elevations, at first covered with white down. 

 St. 2-5 x 1-3 cm., orange, obconic, or equal. Spines whitish, becoming 

 orange, and at length fuscous, 2-4 mm. long, decurrent, subulate. Flesh 

 tawny orange, zoned, corky, compact, thick. Spores yellowish, verru- 

 cose, angularly globose, 4-6 x 4-5/t*, multi-guttulate. Taste pleasant. 

 Woods. Sept. Nov. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2151. H. ferrugineum Fr. (= Hydnum floriforme (Schaeff.) Quel.) 

 Bres. Fung. Trid. t. 143. 



Ferrugineum, of the colour of iron rust. 



P. 2-5-10 cm., white, and exuding blood red drops, then variegated 

 with blood red zones, and finally entirely reddish brown or ferruginous, 

 with the margin white, obconic, hemispherical, then expanded and 

 depressed or cyathiform, at first covered with white down, rugose. St. 



