1042 CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 



It grows either fingle, or two or three from the 

 - . fame bafe. 



The flefli, when broken, is white, and efleemed 

 to be of the eatable kind. 



aurifcaU H. flipitatum, pileo dimidiato. Sp. pi. 1648. 

 pium 2. (Btixiaum. cent. i. /. 57./. i. Michel, gen. 132. 



/. 72. /. 8. Rofe's Elements of Botany^ tab. 3. 



/. 2. b. Sch(vffer. fling, t. 143. opt.) 

 Little Hough or Scraper Plydnum. jlnglis. 

 It grows upon old rotten cones, and decayed 



branches of the fir-tree, lying half buried in 



the ground, at Blair in Athol.^ and in the pine 



forefts. X. 

 The fubftance of this is dry and coriaceous ; the 



color generally a tawny-brown i the height 



from one to two inches. 

 The ftalk is flender, fomewhat bulbous or thickefl 



at the bafe, gradually tapering towards the 



top, covered with fufcous downy hairs, and 



generally inferted on one fide of the Pileus, 



but fometimes in its centre. 

 The Pileus is moft commonly femicircular, or 



kidney-lhap'd, fometimes completely circular, 



about half an inch in diameter, convex on the 



upper fide, having fometimes an elevated umbo 

 ' in the centre, and ufually covered with downy 



hairs of a tawny-brown color, but is fometimes 



fmooth, and almoft black. 



The 



