REVISION OF THE NoRTH AMERICAN HYDNACEAE 107 
The plant appears to have chiefly a southern distribution but 
may have a wider range than is supposed as it is likely to be 
passed over by collectors for 77. repanda. It has not been re- 
ported as yet outside of the type locality where it is not common. 
The original description was made from dried specimens, which 
without ample field notes are always unsatisfactory in the case 
of fleshy fungi. Тһе description is now corrected and supple- 
mented by the excellent field notes since received from Professor 
Earle. 
2. Нупком ALBibUM Peck, Bull. №. Y. State Mus. Nat. Hist. т: 
IO. 1887 
Plant terrestrial, mesopodous, white to cream-colored, staining 
brown when injured, 2-5 cm. high; pileus nearly plane or slightly 
convex or depressed, more or less irregular, margin thin ; surface 
“ subpruinose " from “felted fibrils,’ dry, 2-8 cm. wide ; sub- 
stance fleshy-fibrous, brittle, becoming mealy, white turning red- 
dish or brownish when injured ; stem slender, terete, even, enlarg- 
ing to a subbulbous base, more or less excentric, widening into the 
pileus, solid, concolorous, 2-5 cm. long by 0.5-І cm. wide ; teeth 
white staining brownish, slender, terete, tapering, acute to “ bristle 
tipped," subdecurrent, crowded, about 3 to one millimeter, 1.5— 
margin; spores white or hyaline, subglobose to subpyriform, 
smooth, 3.5—5.5 м wide ; taste mild at first, afterwards becoming 
slightly acrid. 
Has.: In mixed woods. Aug.—Nov. 
Rance: New York, Peck, Peck & Earle 817, Underwood, 
Banker 713 ; Connecticut, Earle 1310, Underwood & Earle 1202 
Icon : Peck, Rept. М. Y. State Mus. Nat. Hist. 51 : [/. 56. f. 1-7. 
The plantas thus far reported is northeastern in its distribu- 
tion. The New York collections have all been east of the Hudson. 
The plant has also been reported from Vermont, Вит, but I 
have not seen his specimens. 
Peck does not mention in his description that the flesh turns 
yellow or brown when bruised, but specimens found by the writer 
in New York and by Underwood and Earle in Connecticut while in 
all other respects answering to Peck's plants showed also this 
characteristic. I have usually found this plant in very wet 
ground. 
