636 HYDNUM 



lobed. St. 3-8 cm. x 1-4 mm., ochraceous, then concolorous, vertical, 

 lateral, rarely central, hairy, rooted. Spines yellowish, or flesh colour, 

 then cinereous and brown, 1-3 mm. long, coriaceous, thin, crowded. 

 Spores white, minutely echinulate, globose, 4-5/z. Cones of conifers. 

 May Feb. Common, (v.v.) 



III. Very much branched, or tuberculiform, and immarginate. 



2156. H. coralloides (Scop.) Fr. Holland, Champ, t. 100, no. 221. 



Kopd\\tov, coral; eZSo?, like. 



P. 10-40 cm., shining white, at length yellowish, very much branched, 

 entirely broken up into attenuated, intricate branches, arising from a 

 thick trunk; primary branches, 12-20 mm. thick, ultimate ones, 

 1-2 mm. thick, pruinose. Spines white, becoming yellowish, 6-10 mm. 

 long, fasciculate, subulate, entire, unilateral. Flesh white, fleshy 

 fibrous. Spores white, globose, 4/u,, with a large central gutta. Edible. 

 Decayed fir, beech, ash, birch, and oak trunks. Oct. Nov. Rare. 

 (v.v.) 



2157. H. erinaceus (Bull.) Fr. Holland, Champ, t. 100, no. 220. 



Erinaceus, a hedgehog. 



P. 5-30 cm., white, then yellowish, spathulate, or epaulet-shape, 

 pendulous, tubercular, immarginate, torn into fibrils above. St. some- 

 times rudimentary. Spines white, 3-6 cm. long, pendulous, straight, 

 equal, simple, crowded, pruinose. Flesh white, unchangeable, thick, 

 lacunose, tough, very soft, elastic. Spores white, subglobose, 6-7 /u., 

 with a large central gutta. Taste acid, then sweet. Edible. Beech, 

 oak, hornbeam, and alder trunks. Sept. Dec. Rare, (v.v.) 



2158. H. caput-Medusae (Bull.) Fr. Bull. Hist. Champ. Fr. t. 412. 



Caput, head; Medusae, of a Medusa. 



P. 7-10 cm., white, then fuliginous cinereous, globose, tuberculiform, 

 substipitate, covered all over with spines. Spines on upper surface dis- 

 torted, the lower ones, 10-20 mm. long, straight. Flesh white, fibrillose, 

 soft. Trunks. Rare. 



2159. H. setosum (Pers.) Bres. (= Hydnum Schiedermayeri Heufl. ; 

 Dryodon luteocarneum (Seer.) Quel.) Kalchbr. Icon. t. 38, fig. 4, 

 as Hydnum Schiedermayeri Heufl. Setosum, bristly. 



P. 15-30 cm., sulphur, then flesh colour, becoming rufescent on ex- 

 posure to the sun, broadly effused, immarginate, tubercular, stalactite- 

 like, pruinose. Spines sulphur flesh colour, apex white fimbriate, in- 

 cised, 3-5 mm. long, subulate, often fasciculate, compressed, chan- 

 nelled, intermixed with shorter conical spines, crowded. Flesh white, 

 sulphur near the exterior, cheesy, juicy, firm, lacunose, sometimes 

 bearing spines in the inside. Spores white, pale ochraceous, sub- 



