320 Rev. M.J. Berkeley and Mr. C. E. Broome on British Fungi. 



This fine species, which attains a diameter of several inches, 

 was included, in the 'Syst. Myc.,^ under H. Icevigatunij from 

 which it is now very properly separated. We have fine speci- 

 mens of the true plant from Italy. 



1025. Hydnum tomentosum, L. Suec. 1259. 



Ascot, in fir- woods. Abundant, Rev. G. H. Sawyer. 



Our specimens exactly resemble one from Fries, marked H. 

 tomentosum, var. They have a strong scent of melilot, but 

 differ from H. graveolens in the strongly zoned pileus, more 

 coriaceous substance, and in the white (not grey) spines. The 

 white spores are thrown down in abundance on any subjacent 

 objects. 



*^. zonatum, Fr., Batsch, El. f. 229. 



Ascot, Rev. G. H. Sawyer. 



A small variety ; remarkable for an appearance in the spines 

 like that of shot silk. Spores ferruginous. 



1026. H. argutum, Fr. Syst. Myc. vol. i. p. 424. 

 Bodelwyddan, FHntshire, Sept. 1863. Twycross, Rev. A. 



Bloxam, on a willow, extending over a large surface. 



The plant from Flintshire is the more normal form. Mr. 

 Bloxam's plant agrees in everything with Sistotrema laxum, 

 Pers. Myc. Eur., referred by Fries to this species, except in the 

 teeth not being serrated. The more distinctive character, how- 

 ever, seems to reside in the spongy subiculum, which consists of 

 rather strong perpendicular threads. The spores are large and 

 subglobose. 



^H, niveum, Pers. Syn. p. 563. Var. persistenter niveum. 



Ascot, running over shaded twigs of heath near the ground, 

 in little membranaceous films. 



Teeth compressed. This does not become so yellow in drying 

 as specimens from other localities; but it does not seem to 

 diff*er essentially. The patches are only a few lines across. 



1027. Grandinia ocellaia, Fr. Ep. p. 527. 



On dead prostrate trunks of trees. Bodelwyddan, Flintshire; 

 Coed Coch, Denbighshire, Aug., Sept., 1863, 1864. 



^Thelephora Soiverbeii, B. Outl. p. 266. Nivea infundibu- 

 liformis, tandem decolorans, sursum aculeato-scabra ; hymenio 

 esetuloso. 



Mr. Sawyer has at last met with the true plant of Sowerby at 

 Burnham Beeches, where it has since been seen by others. 

 When fresh, it is of a pure white; though, when exposed to the 

 weather, it assumes a dingy yellow tinge here and there, and 

 therefore cannot be the same with the Cotterstock plant de- 

 scribed below, of which we now give a figure. The hymenium 

 is not in the slightest degree setulose. The pileus is rough, 

 with radiating processes projecting from the surface. Sowerby^s 



