REVISION ОЕ THE NORTH AMERICAN HYDNACEAE 163 
The type specimen was collected in Maine and is now in the 
herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden but is badly injured 
by mould. The New Jersey specimens also in the New York 
Botanical Garden appear to be identical in every respect and are 
in good condition. ` The original description is here supplemented 
by a study of these. Тһе plants were referred by M. C. Cooke 
to Hydnum compactum Fries but I cannot see that they have any 
relation to that species, and certainly they do not in the least re- 
semble European specimens referred to А. compactum. The field 
notes on the type specimen state that the teeth were 5 mm. long, 
but in all the dried specimens they are notably short, not over 2 
mm. long. 
I3. HvDNELLUM SUAVEOLENS (Scop.) Karst. Medd. Soc. Faun. 
et Pl-Feon: 8:25 1879 
Hydnum suaveolens Scopoli, Fl. Carn. 2: 472. 1772. 
Hydnum boreale Banker; White, Bull. Torrey Club, 20: 553. 
1902. 
Calodon suaveolens Karsten, Rev. Мус. 31:20. 1881. 
Plant terrestrial, mesopodous, solitary, large ; pileus obconical 
convex to plane, depressed at center, somewhat round, 7—15 cm 
wide ; surface woolly pubescent subeven to uneven, white becoming 
dirty greenish; margin thick, obtuse ; substance spongy, soft, whitish 
in the upper part of the pileus, hard, compact in the lower por- 
tion, zonate with whitish and deep lavender or bluish bands ; stem 
short, almost wanting, compressed ; teeth short, terete, obtuse, or 
acute, decurrent, brownish with white tips, 5 mm. long, 0.5 mm 
wide ; mycelium purple, persistent ; odor unpleasant. 
Нав.: On ground in leaf mould under balsam. 
RANGE: Canada, Saunders ; Maine, White, Churchill. 
Icon. : Harzer, Naturg. Abb. Pilze, 2/. 52; Quélet, Les Champ. 
du Jura et des Vosg., pl. 20. f. г. 
Exsicc.: Linhart, Fung. Hung. 346; De Thümen, Fung. 
Aust. отд. 
The plant described as Hydnum boreale Banker, loc. cit., is prob- 
ably an unusually large and abnormal form of H. suaveolens and 1 
have therefore reduced it to synonymy. The Churchill and Saun- 
ders specimens which are in the state herbarium at Albany are ap- 
parently typical plants and conform in all respects to the specimens 
