114 . Revision oF THE NortH AMERICAN HYDNACEAE 
1. Hericium laciniatum (Leers) 
Hydnum laciniatum Leers, Fl. Herb. 2d. ed. 280. 1789;* 
Hydnum ramosum Bulliard, Hist. de Champ. de la France, 305. 
pl. 300. 1791. 
Hydnum abietinum Schrader, ӛріс. Fl. Germ. 181. 1704. 
Medusina coralloides Chevellier, Fl. Gen. des Env. de Paris 1: 
279. 1826, in part? 
Plants gregarious, epixylous, branched from a single short or 
scarcely evident stipe, shining white throughout, becoming brownish 
with age, the whole mass 6-20 cm. wide ; stipe usually imbedded 
іп the substratum, 1-3 cm. wide, immediately on emerging branch- 
ing copiously into variously curved and delicate branchlets which 
occasionally anastomose near the base, are sometimes short and 
divaricate, sometimes long and serpentine ; the ultimate branchlets 
often only 1 mm. thick ; substance fleshy, white; teeth chiefly de- 
pendent from lower surface of branches, more or less uniformly 
distributed on the branches quite to the base ; at the ends of the 
branches the teeth are usually on all sides and more or less erect 
occasionally drooping or pendent in terminal clusters, terete, acute, 
0.5-5 mm. long; spores globose to suboval, smooth, uniguttulate, 
white, 4-5 и wide; odor somewhat unpleasant; taste slightly 
pungent. 
Нав. : On beech and hickory logs. Aug.—Dec. 
Rance : Canada, Dearness; New York, Shear, Peck; Ver- 
mont, Banker, Lee ; Pennsylvania, Schweinitz, Banker; New 
Jersey, Geismar; South Carolina, Ravenel; Ohio, Sanders ; 
Indiana, Underwood, Banker, Arthur, Ellis & Wright; California, 
Eastwood. | . 
Icon.: Boccone, Mus. di Piante Rare, M. 707. J-—^ sage. 
Micheli, Nov. Plant. Gen. M. бу. f. 2. 1 720; Sowerby, Eng. 
Fung. AJ. 252; Bulliard, Herb. de la France, р/ 390; Peck, 
Кері. N. Y. State Mus. 48: 5. 24. f. 11-13; Atkinson, Mushr. 
etc., ed. 1900, f. 784 t; Idem, ed. тоот, Ж 195 t ; McIlvaine, One 
Thous. Am. Fung. AX. 134. 
Exsicc.: Ravenel, F ung. Cat. Exsicc. 24 ; Shear, М. Y. Fung. 
45; Ellis and Everhart, N. A. Fung. 1708, 1908 ; Roumeguére, 
Fung. Gall. 3703; Sydow, Myc. March. 1016; Kellerman, Ohio 
Fung. 126. ; 
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* The first edition of this work was published in 1775; whether it contained the 
above species is not known to the writer but it seems probable that it did. E 
T The figures in the two editions are identical and typical figures of this species. 
