156 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



In fir woods. Gregarious and commonly confluent or 

 growing into each other. 



II. PLEUEOPUS. Stem lateral. 



Hydnum auriscalpium. Linn. 



Pileus ^1 in. across, thin, dark brown, hairy, reniform; 

 stem very slender, 2-3 in. long, dark, rooting ; spines 

 crowded, 2-3 lines long, dark ; spores suhglobose, 5 X 4 /*. 



Hydnum auriscalpium, Linn., Suec, n. 1260 ; Stev., Fung., 

 p. 239. 



On fir cones ; amongst fir leaves, &c. 



Pileus ^1 in. broad, subrotund, thin coriaceous, often 

 somewhat lobed, the margin of the pileus entire, more or less 

 zoned, tomentose, purplish or reddish-brown, sometimes 

 pale ; spines subcinereous, or a dilute shade of the pileus, 

 the tips often darker, but not always so, more or less hoary 

 from the spores. Stem buried to some depth amongst fir 

 leaves, 2-3 in. high, often confluent, slender, dark-brown, 

 tomentose, attached by a shaggy or spongy base. (Berk.). 



Pileus roundish, about f in. in breadth, nearly plane, or 

 somewhat convex, entire at the margin, of a leathery 

 substance ; surface tomentose, obscurely zoned ; colour 

 purplish-brown. Spines of the hymenium generally paler 

 than the pileus, darkest at their apex, which is entire. 

 Stipes often branched at the base, 2-4 in. long, erect, 

 lateral, cylindrical, tomentose, brown, terminating in a 

 shaggy root, which is always fixed to the cone of some 

 species of fir. (Grev.) 



III. MEEISMA. Very much hranched, or fuherculiform, 



Hydnum coralloides. ScopoH. 



Pure white, yellowish with age, entirely broken up into 

 tapering interlaced branches ; branches ^ in. thick or more 

 at the base, about 1 line at the tip ; spines growing from one 

 side of the branches, pendulous, 3-6 lines long, awl-shaped, 

 entire ; spores globose, 4-6 /j, diam. 



Hydnum coralloides. Scop., Cam., 2, p. 472 ; Stev., Fung., 

 p. 239. 



