1042 CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 



It grows either fingle, or two or three from the 



fame bafe. 

 The flefh, when broken, is white, and efteemed 



to be of the eatable kind. 



mmfcaU H. ftipitatum, pileo dimidiato. Sp. pi. 1648. 

 pium 2. (Buxhaum. cent, i. /. si-f- i- Michel gen. 132. 

 /. 72. /. 8. Rofis Elements of Botany^ tab. 3. 

 /. 2. b. Schceffer. fung. t. 143. opt.) 



Little Hough or Scraper Hydnum. Anglis. 



It grows upon old rotten cones, and decayed 

 branches of the fir-tree, lying half buried in 

 the ground, at Blair in Athol^ and in the pine 

 forefts. X. 



The fubftance of this is dry and coriaceous •, the 

 color generally a tawny-brown \ the height 

 from one to two inches. 



The ftalk is flender, fomewhat bulbous or thickefl 

 at the bafe, gradually tapering towards the 

 top, covered with fufcous downy hairs, and 

 generally inferted on one fide of the PilenSy 

 but fometimes in its centre. 



The Pileus is moft commonly femicircular, or 

 kidney-fhap'd, fometimes completely circular, 

 about half an inch in diameter, convex on the 

 upper fide, having fometimes an elevated umbo 

 in the centre, and ufually covered with downy 

 hairs of a tawny-brown color, but is fometimes 

 fmooth, and almoll black. 



The 



