CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Hydnum, 
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Stem often fasciculated, pale cinnamon, cylindrical. Bolton. Pileus de¬ 
pressed in the centre, crooked, much bent down at the rim, leathery, 
dirty white or buff. Stem lateral, crooked, short, horizontal or inclined. 
Prickles numerous, crooked, decurrent, brownish. Mr. Stackhouse. 
(Yellow Hydnum. Hyd. repandum. Bull. Bolt. Purt. Pers. Hook. 
Sowerby. Hyd. Jlavidum and rufescens. Schaeff. E.) Woods about 
Bungay, not uncommon. Mr. Woodward. Near Haughwood, Here¬ 
fordshire, in a hollow road. Mr. Stackhouse. Sept.* 
Var. 2. Prickles white: pileus and stem yellow white. 
Bolt. 88. 
Prickles one to four lines in length. Pileus smooth, convex, sometimes 
lobed and gashed at the edge, fleshy, brittle, about three inches over. 
Stem three inches high, half to three-quarters of an inch diameter ; brittle. 
Bolt. 
In a deep narrow lane near Halifax. Sept. Oct. 
Stemless. 
Hyd. cris'pum. Nearly stemless, red brown, growing in clusters, 
leathery, lobed: prickles tawny red, tiled. 
Schaff. 147. 1. 
Resembles Hyd.Jloriforme in every thing but shape, and the want of a stem. 
Its mode of growth is not unlike that of the thin stemless Boleti. 
(Tiled Red-brown Hydnum. E.) Found by Hr. Sibthorpe in a clover 
field near Witney. See FI. Oxon. p. 832. Oct. 
Hyd. Davies'ii. Sessile, tiled, yellow brown, with zones of a darker 
colour. 
Sowerby 15. 
Grows exactly like Bol. versicolor , and from its coloured zones may readily 
be taken for it. Fan-shaped; scarcely half an inch diameter. Sowerby 
speaks of it as a rare species, discovered only by the Rev. Hugh Davies 
on a decaying apple tree in Llysdulas garden, Anglesea. 
(Fan-shaped Zoned Hydnum. E.) 
Hyd. erina'ceus. (Bull.) Heart-shaped, pendant, whitish: prickles 
tiled, at the ends awl-shaped, yellowish brown. Dicks, ii. 24. 
Bull. 34— Buxb. i. 56. 1. 
Pileus convex, whitish, or yellowish, not leathery, one to three inches over. 
Prickles very long, yellowish, tiled, hanging down to the depth of two or 
three inches. Generally sessile, but sometimes, when growing in a deep 
cleft, its base is elongated so as to form a kind of stem. Bulliard. 
(Hedge-hogged Hydnum. E.) On old trees. 
Hyd. min'imum. (Bolt.) Sessile, tawny, woody; prickles upright. 
Bolt. 171. 
Semi-globular, adhering by its base to decayed wood, solitary or crowded. 
* (This fungus is regularly sold in Austria, France, and Switzerland. When pre¬ 
pared for the table, it is commonly broiled with fresh butter, pepper, and salt, and fine 
herbs. It is sometimes plunged into boiling water, and, without draining, dressed d la 
graisse et au bouillon. G rev. E.) 
