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quarters of an inch long, spathulato-flabelliform, fixed b}^ a narrow 

 base, which is mostly more or less distinct, coriaceous, clothed with 

 white or slightly tawny short woolly hairs; hymenium, bordered; 

 aculei acute, sometimes compressed above, flesh colored, ochraceous 

 when dry. Allied to H. ochraceum. 



Hydnum stratosum, n. sp. — On a dead trunk. Cincinnati, June 1, 

 1844. 



Pileis resupinatis, margine libero, demum stratosis, e processibus 

 rigidis ramosis extus stuppeis formatis; aculeis longis, rigidis, 

 acuminatis, spadiceis, hie illic cinereis. — Berk, in Hook. Lond. Journ., 

 vol. iv., p. 307. 



Pilei resupinate. with a narrow lobed border, spreading for three or 

 four inches over the matrix, consisting of repeatedly branched, rigid, 

 brown processes, resembling some cornicularia, which are clothed 

 above with gray, or ferruginous tow-like fibres. Aculei rather long, 

 rigid, sharply acuminate, brown, varying to cinereous, at length stra- 

 tose. This is one of the most remarkable species with which I am 

 acquainted. It resembles in many respects H. parasiticum, but has 

 not, like that a coriaceous pileus. The whole substance, indeed, con- 

 sists merely of rigid branched processes, which are partially over 

 above with coarse pubescence, so that the pileus might perhaps be de- 

 scribed as repeatedly branched. These processes, however, are com- 

 bined into a lobed stratum. I do not know any other species with 

 which it can be compared, except, perhaps, as Dr. Montague suggests, 

 his H. pteruloides, but that he is now inclined to consider as nearly a 

 state of Trarnetes hydroides, whereas the present is a perfect fungus. 



Hydnum Ohiense, Berk. — On the underside of a decayed log. Cin- 

 cinnati, March 19, 1842. 



Resupinatum, membranaceum, a matrice hie illic secernibile, pallide 

 flavum; aculeis longis, acutissimis, aquoso pallido-fuscis, subfascicu- 

 latis. — Berk, in Hook. Lond. Journ., vol. iv., p. 307. 



Spreading for several inches, entirely resupinate, membranaceous, 

 partially separable from the matrix: aculei somewhat fasciculate, one 

 to two lines long, of a watery pale brown, very slender at the apex. 

 Resembling Hydnum Fernandesium, Mont., from which it differs in 

 its shorter, less crowded aculei. The margin, too, in the Juan Fer- 

 nandez species is more distinct, and the whole fungus more luxuriant. 



Thelephora cuticularis, n. sp. — In moist cavity of a dead tree, 

 attached to the wood, twigs, etc. Waynesville, Aug. 23, 1844. 



