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  NEW 
  YORK 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM 
  

  

  is 
  described 
  as 
  having 
  a 
  bitterish 
  peppery 
  taste. 
  In 
  our 
  fungas 
  the 
  

   taste 
  is 
  bitter, 
  resembhng 
  that 
  of 
  Boletus 
  felleus. 
  It 
  has 
  a 
  farinaceous 
  

   odor 
  and 
  a 
  slight 
  farinaceous 
  flavor 
  with 
  the 
  first 
  taste, 
  but 
  this 
  is 
  

   soon 
  overcome 
  by 
  the 
  very 
  bitter 
  flavor. 
  

  

  Hydnum 
  albonigrum 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Pileus 
  convex 
  or 
  nearly 
  plane, 
  broadly 
  obconical, 
  tough 
  but 
  soft 
  

   and 
  densely 
  tomentose 
  on 
  the 
  upper 
  surface, 
  buff-brown 
  or 
  smoky 
  

   brown, 
  often 
  wholly 
  covered 
  with 
  a 
  whitish 
  downy 
  tomentum, 
  some- 
  

   times 
  on 
  the 
  margin 
  only, 
  substance 
  within 
  soft 
  tomentose 
  and 
  buff- 
  

   brown 
  in 
  the 
  upper 
  stratum, 
  the 
  lower 
  half 
  hard 
  and 
  black; 
  aculei 
  

   short, 
  at 
  first 
  white, 
  then 
  whitish 
  or 
  grayish 
  ; 
  stem 
  short, 
  often 
  irreg- 
  

   ular 
  compressed 
  or 
  confluent, 
  blackish 
  when 
  moist, 
  buff-brown 
  when 
  

   dry, 
  covered 
  with 
  a 
  thick 
  dense 
  tomentum, 
  which 
  is 
  frequently 
  more 
  

   abundant 
  toward 
  the 
  base, 
  hard 
  and 
  black 
  within; 
  spores 
  white, 
  

   globose, 
  .00016 
  to 
  .0002 
  in. 
  broad. 
  

  

  Pileus 
  I 
  to 
  3 
  in. 
  broad, 
  sometimes 
  two 
  or 
  three 
  confluent; 
  stem 
  i 
  

   to 
  2 
  in. 
  long. 
  

  

  Ground 
  in 
  mixed 
  woods. 
  Gansevoort. 
  August. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  apparently 
  near 
  H. 
  nigrum, 
  but 
  it 
  is 
  well 
  marked 
  by 
  

   the 
  peculiar 
  structure 
  of 
  the 
  pileus 
  which 
  is 
  similar 
  to 
  H. 
  mirabile 
  in 
  

   having 
  the 
  upper 
  half 
  densely 
  tomentose 
  and 
  soft, 
  the 
  lower 
  half 
  hard 
  

   and 
  black 
  and 
  continuous 
  with 
  the 
  stem. 
  Like 
  that 
  species 
  also 
  the 
  

   tomentum 
  of 
  the 
  pileus 
  and 
  stem 
  imbibes 
  much 
  moisture 
  in 
  wet 
  

   weather, 
  which 
  may 
  be 
  pressed 
  out 
  in 
  drops. 
  It 
  is 
  also 
  near 
  H, 
  

   vehitipes, 
  but 
  according 
  to 
  the 
  description, 
  that 
  species 
  is 
  fuscous 
  

   murine 
  in 
  color, 
  paler 
  within 
  and 
  its 
  spores 
  are 
  smaller, 
  and 
  no 
  men- 
  

   tion 
  is 
  made 
  of 
  the 
  difference 
  in 
  texture 
  of 
  the 
  upper 
  and 
  lower 
  part 
  

   of 
  the 
  pileus. 
  

  

  Hydnum 
  vellereum 
  «. 
  sj>. 
  

  

  Pileus 
  nearly 
  plane, 
  tough, 
  subcoriaceous, 
  sometimes 
  centrally 
  

   uneven 
  or 
  colliculose, 
  downy-tomentose, 
  whitish 
  or 
  cinereous 
  from 
  

   the 
  overspreading 
  tomentum, 
  or 
  somewhat 
  brownish-ferruginous 
  

   and 
  whitish 
  on 
  the 
  margin, 
  within 
  fibrous, 
  ferruginous-brown; 
  aculei 
  

   short, 
  about 
  one 
  line 
  long, 
  white 
  or 
  whitish 
  inclining 
  to 
  brownish- 
  

   ferruginous; 
  stem 
  short, 
  colored 
  like 
  the 
  pileus 
  and 
  often 
  covered 
  

  

  