198 REVISION OF THE NoRTH AMERICAN HYDNACEAE 
obtuse, sterile; substance tough, subflexible ; stem scarcely evi- 
dent, 4-8 mm. wide, lateral or superior ; hymenium often zonate, 
concolorous with surface; teeth short, terete or compressed, often 
forking, umber, the longest subtranslucent, opaque toward margin, 
minutely pubescent, 1 mm. long near the base of pileus shortening 
to the sterile margin, 3 and 4 to one millimeter ; spores not observed. 
Honduras, Witson. 
Тһе type specimens were from Cuba. The plant has also been 
reported from Alabama, Atkinson. I have not seen the latter. 
The Honduras specimens differ from the type in a firmer substance 
to the pileus, and more distinct color zonation. In the type the 
teeth аге distinctly pubescent. The above description was made 
from dried, pressed material. 
Hydnum glabrescens Berk. & Rav., was described from material 
from South Carolina, Ravenel по. 1634, and Ceylon, 704425 по. 
385. The latter specimen is now a poor scrap which appears to 
have been froma resupinate plant. Such characters as can be made 
out do not seem to indicate the same thing as the Ravenel speci- 
men, as might be expected from its distribution. Ravenel по. 1634 
does not appear to be essentially distinct from the type of Hydnum 
reniforme. It isa slightly larger plant, but has the same color, 
substance, and sulcate-zonate features. Іп form it is irregularly 
dimidiate, and the teeth do not appear to be pubescent but they are 
in such poor condition that this character is not certain. Хо spores 
were found on either plant. At Kew a variety of things is placed 
with this species. Тһе glabrate character which gives the specific 
name to the species is not so marked in the type specimen as it is 
іп the type specimen of Hydnum reniforme. Оп the whole it ap- 
pears doubtful from a comparison both of the descriptions and of 
the type specimens whether Hydnum reniforme B. & C. and АГ 
glabrescens B. & R. are really distinct species. 
5. Steccherinum strigosum (Swartz) 
Hydnum parasiticum Persoon, Icon. et Desctip. Fung. 55. 1800. 
Not М. parasiticum L, 
Hydnum strigosum Swartz, Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Nya Handl. 
. 1810: 250. | 
Gloiodon strigosus Karsten, Medd. Soc. Faun. et Fl. Fenn. 5: 
28. 1870. 
Sclerodon strigosus Karsten, Finl. Basidsv. 361. 1880. 
