ESCULENT FUNGI OF GREAT BRITAIN, $75 
Hyd. imbricatum. Bolt, Fung, t. 87. 
Hyd. flavidum, Schceff. t. 318. 
Hyd. rufescens, Schoeff. t. 141. 
Hyd. carnosum, Batsch^ Elench, Fung, f. 136, 
Hyd. clandestinum, Batsch^ 1. c. f. 44. 
Hyd. medium, Pers. Obs. Mycol. % p. 97« 
H AB. Woods ; frequent. Summer and autumn. 
Desc. Plant solitary or gregarious, pale buff, sometimes 
turning reddish. Pileus repand, irregular, lobed, or 
entire, depressed in the centre, margin mostly round- 
ed, smooth, brittle. Flesh pale, huffish, not changing 
colour when cut. Awl-shaped processes of the hyme- 
nium, irregular, unequal, generally entire at the apex, 
but sometimes jagged, and almost hollow, f of an 
inch in length. Stem thick, unequal, often deformed, 
solid, expanding into the pileus, 1 g-S inches long. 
This Hydnum is regularly sold in France and Austria. 
In the former it has acquired the appellations of eurchon^ 
chrevrette^ chevratine, rignoche, and arresteron. The Ita- 
lians, at least in Tuscany, name it steccherrino and dentino- 
dorato. In the Pays des Voges it is also called pied de 
mouton and barbe de vache. 
No mistakes can arise in the choice of this fungus. On 
the Continent, indeed, Hydnum album might be gathered 
for it by very inattentive persons, but that is even superior 
to the present species as an article of food. The flavour 
somewhat resembles that of the chanterelle^ and is improved 
in the same way by cooking. It is often broiled; but 
M. Paulet says, the best manner of dressing them is to 
plunge them for a short time into boiling water, and then 
commit them " « graisse et au bouillofi,''^ as having little 
