HYDNUM REPANDUM.Flesh-coloured Rydnum.

Class and Oiider CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, Linn _Nat. Ord. FUNGI, Link. Grcv.

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Hymenium aculeatuin. Aculei vel processi subulati liberi earnest sporuliferi.Hymenium spinose. Spines or awl-shaped processes, free, carnose, spornle-bearing.

SPECIFIC CHARACTER.

Hydnum repandum; pileo carnoso, leevi, subrep undo, incarnato-pallido ; acu-leis inwqualibus pallidis ; stipite pallido dfformi.

H. pileus fleshy, smooth, unequally spreading, pale flesh-colour; spinousprocesses unequal, pale; the stem very pale, irregular in form.

Hydnum repandum, Linn. FI. Suec. 12 58 — Sp. PI. 1467_ FI. Dan. t. 310.

— Bull. Champ, p. 311. t. 172.— Sow. Fung. t. 176. — Bolt. Fung. t. 89. —Sibth . FI. Oxon. 1072. — Huds. FI. Angl. v. 2. p. 628. — Lightf. FI. Scot.p. 1041. — With. Bol. Arr. ed. 6. v. 4. p. 403. — Belli. FI. Cantab, ed. 3.p. 550. — Pers. Obs. Mycol. 2. p. 96 . — Syn. Fung. p. 555.— Scop. Fl. Cam.No. 1599 •—De Cand. Fl. Franr t . ed. 3. v. 2. p. 1 11. — Ejusd. Syn. p. 22 —Alb. et Schw. p. 265.— Merat, Fl. des Environs de Paris, v. 1. p. 38.— Pers.Traite, p. 247. — Putt. Midi. Fl. v. 2. p. 677-— Fries, Obs. Mycol. 1. p. 138.

— Syst. Mycol. v. 1. p 400,— Hook. Fl. Scot. Pt. 2. p. 28.- Grev. Fl,

Edin. ined.

Hydnum rufescens, Schceff. Fung. t. 141.

Hydnum flavidum, Schceff. be. cit. t. 318.

Hydnum carnosum, Batsch. Elench, Fung. t. 26. f. 136.

Hydnum clandestinum, Batsch. loc. cit. t. 10. f. 44,

Hydnum medium, Pers. Ob. Mycol. 2. p. 97.

Dentinum repandum, Gray’s Nat. Arr. v. 1. p. 650.

Fungus erinaceus, Vaill. Par, t. 14. f. 6, 7, 8.

Erinaceus esculentus pallide luteus, Mich. Nov. Gen. p. 132. t. 72. f. 3.

Hab. Woods; very generally diffused through Great Britain, and prettycommon, in the autumn.

Pileus 2-4 inches broad, more or less convex, sometimes slightly depressed,smooth, brittle, carnose, waved or sinuous, or even sublobed at the mar-gin, spreading, very pale buff flesh colour, occasionally reddish. Hyme-nium composed of fleshy, unequal, conical spines, about the eighth of aninch in length, very pale, mostly entire at the apex, but sometimes laci-

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