CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 1041 



doubtlefs it is their proper food. It is pity- 

 men, or other animals, Iliould rob them of 

 it; 



HYDNUM. Gen. pi. 121 1. 



Fungus horizontalis, fubtus echinatus. 



HYDNUM ftipitatiim pileo coRvexo Isvi fiexuo- 

 fo. Sp. pi. 1647. (Michel, gen. 132./. 72./. 3, 

 Vaill. paris. t. 14. /. 6, 7, 8. quoad Jig. Oeder 

 Dan. 310. bona. Schceffer. fung. t. 141, opt.) 



Yellow fmooth Hydnum. Anglis. 



In woods not unfrequent. We obferv'd it at 

 Bellmcnt, the feat of the honourable Mr. Stewart 

 Mackenzie^ in the county of Angus. X. 



The fubflance of this is dry, fielliy, and breaks 

 fhort ; the color a pale yellow. 



The ftalk is about two inches high, a finger 

 thick, folid, biggeft at the bafe, of a whitifh or 

 pale-yeliow color, with white puftules near the 

 top. 



The Pileus is of a pale-yellow color, fmooth on 

 the upper fide, convex, about three inches in 

 diameter, the margin deflex'd, fometimes intire, 

 but generally waved or lobed irregularly. 



The under fide is echinated, according to the 

 character of the genus \ the prickles of a pale- 

 yeliow color. The feeds fphsrical. 



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