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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
is described as having a bitterish peppery taste. In our fungus the 
taste is bitter, resembling that of Boletus felleus. It has a farinaceous 
odor and a slight farinaceous flavor with the first taste, but this is 
soon overcome by the very bitter flavor. 
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Hydnum albonigrum n. sp. 
Pileus convex or nearly plane, broadly obconical, tough but soft 
and densely tomentose on the upper surface, buff-brown or smoky 
brown, often wholly covered with a whitish downy tomentum, some¬ 
times on the margin only, substance within soft tomentose and buff- 
brown in the upper stratum, the lower half hard and black; aculei 
short, at first white, then whitish or grayish; stem short, often irreg¬ 
ular compressed or confluent, blackish when moist, buff-brown when 
dry, covered with a thick dense tomentum, which is frequently more 
abundant toward the base, hard and black within; spores white, 
globose, .00016 to .0002 in. broad. 
Pileus 1 to 3 in. broad, sometimes two or three con-fluent; stem 1 
to 2 in. long. 
Ground in mixed woods. Gansevoort. August. 
This species is apparently near H. nigrum, but it is well marked by 
the peculiar structure of the pileus which is similar to H. mirabile in 
having the upper half densely tomentose and soft, the lower half hard 
and black and continuous with the stem. Like that species also the 
tomentum of the pileus and stem imbibes much moisture in wet 
weather, which may be pressed out in drops. It is also near H. 
vclutipes, but according to the description, that species is fuscous 
murine in color, paler within and its spores are smaller, and no men¬ 
tion is made of the difference in texture of the upper and lower part 
of the pileus. 
Hydnum vellereum n. sp. 
Pileus nearly plane, tough, subcoriaceous, sometimes centrally 
uneven or colliculose, downv-tomentose, whitish or cinereous from 
the overspreading tomentum, or somewhat brownish-ferruginous 
and whitish on the margin, within fibrous, ferruginous-brown; aculei 
short, about one line long, white or whitish inclining to brownish- 
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ferruginous; stem short, colored like the pileus and often covered 
