646 ODONTIA 



then stipitate and obtusely divided upwards, tough. Flesh concolo- 

 rous, gelatinous, thin. Spores "globose, shortly pedicellate" Massee. 

 Inside of very rotten oak tree. March. Rare. 



2188. 0. aurea (Fr.) Quel. (= Hydnum aureum Fr.) Aurea, golden. 

 R. 5-13 cm., golden, at first nodular, then confluent and irregu- 

 larly effused, adnate, mealy; margin white, becoming violet when dry, 

 radiately strigose. Spines concolorous, apex white, 2 mm. long, seta- 

 ceous, subulate, equal, entire, crowded. Flesh concolorous, subcartilagi- 

 nous, thin. Spores white, "muriculate, subglobose, 4-5 JLI" Massee. 

 Mycelium penetrating the wood, and forming a yellow flesh colour 

 circumscribing zone. Dead branches. Dec. Rare. 



**Membranaceous, floccose, or mealy. 



2189. 0. stipata (Fr.) Quel. (= Hydnum stipatum Fr.) Fr. Icon. t. 

 194, fig. 2, as Hydnum stipatum Fr. Stipata, crowded. 



R. 3-8 cm., white, then isabelline, or light yellowish, very widely 

 effused, flocculoso-furfuraceous ; margin similar, sterile, sometimes 

 swollen and tomentose, rarely membranaceous and silky. Spines 

 white, then concolorous, granular, becoming subulate and pointed, 

 minutely toothed, thin, crowded, soft. Flesh concolorous, floccose, thin. 

 Spores white, "oblong, 3-4-6-5 x 2-5-3-4/i; basidia 9-18 x 3-4-6/z, 

 with 2-4 straight sterigmata, 3/n long. Cystidia firm, 2-4/z in diam., 

 emerging in tufts. Hyphae thin walled, 1-5-3-5 /A in diam., with 

 clamp connections, intermixed with yellowish, firm, thick walled 

 hyphae which become coloured with eosin" Bourd. & Galz. Stumps 

 and fallen branches of deciduous trees. Jan. Dec. Not uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



2190- 0. barba-Jovis (With.) Fr. Sow. Eng. Fung. t. 328, as Hydnum 

 barba-Jovis. Barba, beard; Jovis, of Jupiter. 



R. 5-20 cm., white, then yellowish, effused, slightly adnate, floccose; 

 margin narrow, byssoid, pubescent. Spines concolorous, 12 mm. long, 

 subulate, with one or many very thin points, more or less bristly on 

 the sides, sometimes with an orange fringe at the apex. Flesh con- 

 colorous, floccose, membranaceous, loose. Spores white, " oboval, or 

 subglobose, obliquely attenuated, or apiculate at the base, 4-7 x 

 3-5-4-5 ju,, often 1-guttulate; basidia 15-24-30 x 4-6/it. Cystidia 

 cylindrical, or narrowly clavate, 60-600 x 4-5-7 /i, generally fascicu- 

 late (often poorly differentiated, with thin walls, 1-2-septate), thick 

 walled at the base, with a narrow channel insensibly enlarged upwards 

 where the walls become thinner. Hyphae thin walled, or scarcely 

 thickened, 2-5-4/i in diam., with clamp connections, and coloured 

 by eosin" Bourd. & Galz. Wood, and branches of conifers. July 

 Jan. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



