On the ground, in pine-woods. Not common. Of the two
forms, the one with thick persistent scales alone has been at
present found in Great Britain.
2. H. repandum, L . ; pileus fleshy, compact, rather waved,
nearly smooth, pallid, as well as the irregular stem; spines
unequal, of the same colour. (Plate 17, fig. 2.)—Huss. i. 1.16.
On the ground, in woods. Common. Esculent. H. ru-
fescens is a variety with a redder colour.—Bolt. t. 89.
3. H. oompactum, F r .; pileus corky, compact, waved and
tuberculate, zoneless, olivaceous, cinereous, or brown, commonly
involved in white down, variegated with blue within;
stem very short, irregular, tawny-hrown; spines brownish,
pale at the tips.—Batsch, f . 221.
On the ground, on heaths, and in fir-woods. Bare. Bungay,
Woodward. Aviemore, Klotzsch.
4. H. zonatum, Batsch ; ferruginous; pileus coriaceous,
thin, expanded, somewhat funnel-shaped, zoned, at length
smooth, radiato-rugose; margin pale, sterile; stem slender,
nearly equal, floccose, tuberous at the base; spines slender,
pallid, then of the same colour as the pileus.—Batsch, f . 224.
In woods. Rare. Cork, Mr. Denis Murray.
5. H. graveolens, Delastre; pileus coriaceous, thin, soft,
zoneless, wrinkled, dark brown, cinereous when dry, brown
within ; margin whitish; stem slender; spines short, grey.
In woods. Rare. Wales, Mr. Ralfs. Worcestershire.
Has a strong and persistent smell of melilot.
** Stem lateral.
6. H. auriscalpinm, L . ; pileus dimidiate, kidney-shaped,
coriaceous, hairy, bright brown, inclining to black; stem slender,
rooting, hairy, of the same colour; spines tough, bright
brown.—Grev. t. 196.
On fir-cones. Common. Extremely pretty.
*** Branched or tuberculiform, immarginate.
7. H. eoraUoides, Scop.; very much branched, white, at
length yellowish, broken up into intricate attenuated branches;
spines unilateral, awl-shaped, entire.—Sow. t. 252.
On decayed fir, beech, ash, etc. Rare. Young plant resembling
a cauliflower. Esculent.
8. H. Erinaceus, Bull.; flesh tough, elastic, pendulous,
tuherculate, immarginate, white, acquiring a yellow tinge
ahove, torn into fibres; spines very long, straight, equal, pendulous.—
Bull. t. 34.
On trunks of oak, beech, etc. Rare.
9. H. Caput-Medusse, Bull. ; fleshy, tuberculiform, somewhat
stipitate, white, then cinereous; upper spines distorted,
lower fertile, long, straight.—Bull. t. 412.
On trunks of trees. Rare. Oxfordshire, C. P. Berkeley.
#*** Stemless, dimidiate.
10. H. gelatinosum, Scop.; pileus gelatinous, tremulous,
dimidiate, substipitate, glaucous, turning brown, papillate;
spines soft, pyramidal, glaucous.—Kromb. t. 50. / . 18, 22.
On trunks of firs. Very rare. Weybridge, Afr. F. Cwm;?/.
11. H. ochraceum, P . ; pileus effuso-reflexed, thin, coriaceous,
zoned, ochraceous; spines very small, pinkish-ochre.—
Sow. /. 15.
On fallen sticks, etc. Common. Easily removed from the
matrix. Often resupinate.
12. H. squaUnnm, F r .; subiculum firm, coriaceous, adnate,
wood-coloured; spines long, crowded, stout, compressed,
entire, at length brownish.—Boll. t. 74.
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