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Mycologia 
to subinfundibuliform, repand, somewhat uneven or rugose, 
round to slightly irregular, 12-20 cm. wide; surface glabrous, 
pelliculose, subrugose, dark-dingy-olive-brown near center to 
chestnut near margin, the coloring somewhat irregularly distrib- 
uted; margin thin, incurved when dried; substance fibrous to sub- 
fleshy, thin, 2-4 mm. thick when dried, ding}'-white or slightly 
tawny with a gradually increasing steel-blue toward center and in 
stem, homogeneous, azonate ; stem short, excentric, with bulbous 
base ; teeth slender, terete, subcylindrical, acute, decurrent, gray- 
ish-brown, 7 mm. or less long, shortening toward margin and 
stem, crowded, 7-9 to a scp mm. ; spores globose to ovoid, tuber- 
culate, pale-brown to hyaline, 3-4 wide ; hyphae of the pileus 
hyaline to pale-yellowish, smooth, thin-walled, collapsing when 
dried, recovering quickly in KOH, running longitudinally but in- 
terweaving into a close tangle, separable in KOH with some diffi- 
culty, rarely septate with simple clamp-connections, segments ex- 
tremely long, slender, uniform, 5-6^ wide, scarcely any branch- 
ing; odor very strong aromatic with a suggestion of melilot. 
The type specimen was collected in Orono, Maine, by P. L. 
Ricker, No. 173, and is in the writer’s herbarium. Part of the 
same collection is in Mr. Ricker's possession and I believe a speci- 
men is with Prof. Farlow at Harvard University. 
While the species approaches H. siiaveolens in several partic- 
ulars it differs conspicuously in the darker color of the pileus, the 
character of the substance which is more nearly fleshy and does 
not dry hard and woody as in suaveolcns, and the fragrant, spicy 
odor. The odor of this plant is the most remarkable of that of any 
fungus 1 have seen. It has something of a suggestion of melilot, 
but the heavy sickening odor of the latter is relieved by a spicy, 
aromatic quality which makes the fragrance of this plant especially 
delightful. Two specimens of this plant filled a large laboratory 
with their odor for many weeks and even after twelve years a 
fragment of one of these plants still gives a distinct though faint 
odor. The species is known only from the original collection. 
Hydnellum inquinatum sp. nov. 
Hymenophore terrestrial, mesopodous, gregarious to confluent, 
light or dark-brown with light border, medium to large sized ; 
pileus obconic, plane to depressed or subinfundibuliform, some- 
what round or elliptical, 5-10 cm. wide, 0.4-1 cm. thick; surface 
