HYDNUM 635 



4-8 x 1-5-2-5 cm., fuscous ferruginous, often becoming blackish, un- 

 equal, compressed, or sulcate, attenuated, or incrassated at the base, 

 slightly tomentose, becoming smooth. Spines white, soon fuscous 

 ferruginous, 3-5 mm. long, decurrent, subulate, equal. Flesh ferrugi- 

 nous, becoming blackish with age especially in the stem, zoned, spongy 

 corky, thick. Spores fuscous, minutely verrucose, angularly globose, 

 3-4/Li. Smell slightly pleasant. Coniferous woods, and moors. Aug. 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



2152. H. scrobiculatum Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 5, upper figs. 



Scrobiculatum, pitted. 



P. 2-510 cm., ferruginous, becoming paler, plane, depressed and 

 cyathiform, or rarely infundibuliform, pubescent, disc slightly pitted 

 and scaly. St. 1-4 x 12-5 cm., concolorous, or darker, equal, often 

 rooting, smooth. Spines concolorous, apex flesh colour, becoming fuscous, 

 25 mm. long, subdecurrent, thin, fragile. Flesh ferruginous, be- 

 coming paler, zoned, corky coriaceous, thick. Spores pale reddish 

 brown, angularly globose, 4/x. Often confluent. Coniferous woods, 

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



2153. H. zonatum (Batsch) Fr. Holland, Champ, t. 99, no. 218. 



Zonatum, zoned. 



P. 2-5-5 cm., ferruginous, becoming paler when dry, plane, then de- 

 pressed and cyathiform, zoned, radiato-rugose, silky, becoming smooth; 

 margin thin. St. 2-5 cm. x 46 mm., concolorous, or paler, thickened 

 at the base, equal, floccose. Spines pallid, apex grey and glistening, 

 then ferruginous, 1-3 mm. long, thin. Flesh concolorous, coriaceous, 

 fibrous, thin. Spores pale reddish brown, echinulate, globose, 3-4/x, 

 1-guttulate. Coniferous, and frondose woods. Aug. Nov. Not un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



2154. H. Queletii Fr. Quel. Jur. et Vosg. i, t. 20, fig. 2. 



Lucien Quelet, the eminent mycologist. 



P. 23 cm., bright chestnut, becoming dark fuscous, plane, then um- 

 bilicate, silky, disc with thin, crowded, radiating tufts and wrinkles; 

 margin white. St. 12 cm. x 2-3 mm., concolorous, equal, silky, base 

 floccose. Spines grey, then bay brown, 1-2 mm. long, decurrent, thin. 

 Flesh concolorous, or reddish, paler at the apex of the p., corky mem- 

 branaceous, thin. Spores yellowish, minutely verrucose, globose, 

 3-4/n. Often confluent. Frondose woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 

 (*.) 



II. St. lateral. 



2155. H. auriscalpium (Linn.) Fr. Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. t. 196. 



Auriscalpium, ear-pick. 



P. 1-2 cm., pallid, or flesh colour, then date brown and blackish, 

 dimidiate, reniform, rarely hemispherical, hairy; margin sometimes 



