244 HYDNEI. 



Hydnum. Spines crowded, acute, short; mycelium shining white, scanty 

 or obsolete. 



On stone buried among pine-leaves. Glamis, 1876. Oct. 



Name lemon- colour. Citrus Limonum. B. & Br. n. 1686. S. Mycol. 

 Scot. n. 812. 



34. H. spathulatum Fr. Subiculum whitish-yellowish, effused, 

 mimbranaceous, separable, circumference fimbriated. Spines 

 spathulate, oblique, orange. 



Membrane villous beneath. 



On dead wood. Rare. Jan. 



Name spatha, a spatula. Spoon-shaped. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 614. Berk. 

 Out. p. 261. C. Hbk. n. 863. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 813. Schwein. Car. n. 993. 



35. H. multiforme B. & Br.Ochrey- white, at first even, 

 resembling a Corticium, at length here and there fertile. Spines 

 very acute, crowded, becoming pallid and fimbriate ; texture 

 floccoso-mealy. 



Very variable, sometimes almost towy, with the margin inflexed. 

 On dead wood. Glamis, 1877. 



Name multus, many ; forma, form. Of many forms. B. & Br. n. 1687. 

 S, Mycol. Scot. n. 814. 



36. H. anomalum B. & Br. Pallid light yellow; stratum thin, 

 gelatinous; teeth in the form of granules, then stipitate and 

 obtusely divided upwards. 



Substance of teeth tough, with large ovate or globose vesicles immersed in 

 it. Near to Fries's genus Mucronella. 



In the inside of very rotten ash-tree. Langridge, Somerset- 

 shire. March. 



Spores globose, shortly pedicellate. B. &= Br. Name dvoi/xaAos, irregular. 

 B. & Br. n. 1438, with fig. 



37. H. melleum B. & Br. Honey-colour, effused, thin, margin 

 delicately flaxy ; subiculum and teeth, which are acute and some- 

 times divided at the apex, pulverulent downwards, naked at the 

 middle. 



On broken rails on the ground. Coed Coch, 1873. 

 Name mel, honey. Honey-colour. B. &* Br. n. 1436. 



38. H. sepultum B. & Br. Wholly resupinate, golden, margin 

 white. Spines acute, medium-sized. 



