162 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



Sistotrema spathulata, Sz., Car., n. 993. 



On decaying wood. Forming patches 1-2 in. across, 

 spines 12 lines long. In some specimens flattened and 

 acicular spines are mixed. 



Spines, however, scarcely orange, yet agreeing with 

 authentic specimens from Schweinitz; separable. (Berk.) 



Hydnum multiforme. B. & Br. 



Very pale buff or whitish, at first even and resembling a 

 Corticium, at length producing spines here and there, often 

 in clusters, either acute or more or less flattened and fim- 

 briated ; spores colourless, subglobose or very broadly pip- 

 shaped, obliquely apicnlate, 9 x 6-7 p.. 



Hydnum multiforme, Berk. & Broome, Ann. Nat. His., n. 

 1687 ; Stev., Brit. Fung., p. 244. 



On dead wood. Bather broadly effused, inseparable, 

 margin often thin and indeterminate, waxy and becoming 

 cracked when dry. It is almost certain that the present 

 species is a 1rue Corticium, the hymenium is produced on the 

 plane, waxy surface, and not on the spines, which are in 

 some portions of the type specimen absent altogether, and 

 when present, are sterile, irregular, and altogether morbid 

 productions, from 1-2 lines in length. 



Hydnum anomalum. B. & Br. 



Pallid light yellow ; stratum thin, gelatinous ; teeth in 

 the form of granules, then stipitate and obtusely divided 

 upwards ; spores globose, shortly pedicellate. 



Hydnum anomalum, Berk. & Broome, Ann. Nat. Hist., n. 

 1438, with fig. ; Stev., Brit. Fung., p. 244. 



In the inside of a very rotten ash-tree. Substance of teeth 

 tough, with large ovate or globose vesicles immersed in it. 

 (B. & Br.) 



I cannot find a trace of anything like the above on the 

 piece of wood that represents the type specimen. Apparently 

 not a good Hydnum ; may possibly prove to be a resupiuate 

 form allied to Tremellodon, and the ovate or globose vesicles 

 in the spines to be basidia. 



Hydnum melleum. B. & Br. 

 Honey- colour, effused, thin, teeth acute, sometimes divided 



