HYDNEI. 259 



Ou fir-cones. Common. Extremely pretty. 



*** Branclied or ftiberciiUform, immarglnate. 



7. H. coralloides. Scop. ; very mueli branched, wliite^ at 

 length yellowish, broken up into intricate attenuated branches ; 

 spines unilateral, awl-shaped, entire. — Sow. t. 252. 



On decayed fir, beech, ash, etc. Rare. Young plant re- 

 sembling a cauliflower. Esculent. 



8. H. Erinaceus, Bull.; flesh tough, elastic, pendulous, 

 tubereulate, immarginate, white, acquiring a yellow tinge 

 above, torn into fibres ; spines very long, straight, equal, pen- 

 dulous.— £«//. t. 3i. 



On trunks of oak, beech, etc. Rare. 



9. H. Caput-Medusse, Bull. ; fleshy, tubcrculiform, some- 

 what stipitate, white, then cinereous; upper spines distorted, 

 lower fertile, long, straight. — Bull. t. 412. 



On trunks of trees. Rare. Oxfordshire, C P. Berkeley. 



**** Stemless, dimidiate. 



10. H. gelatinosum, Scop. ; pileus gelatinous, tremulous, 

 dimidiate, substipitate, glaucous, turning brown, papillate; 

 spines soft, pyramidal, glaucous. — Kromb. t. 50. /. 18, 22. 



On trunks of firs. Very rare. Weybridge, Mr. F. Curreij, 



11. H. ochraceum, P. ; pileus efi'uso-reflexed, thin, coria- 

 ceous, zoned, oehraceous ; spines very small, pinkish-ochre. — 

 Soiv. ^ 15. 



On fallen sticks, etc. Common. Easily removed from the 

 matrix. Often resupinate. 



***** Besupinate. 



12. H. squalinum, Fr. ; subiculum firm, coriaceous, ad- 

 nate, wood-coloured ; spines long, crowded, stout, compressed, 

 entire, at length brownish. — Bolt. t. 74. 



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