A N
H I S T O R Y OF FUNGUSSES,
G R O W I N G about HALIFAX.
g e n u s in.
H Y D N U M.
CIl. HYDNUM Jlipitatum, pileo convexo imbricato. Sp. PI. 1647
•miricatum. AnSL 6z8- Flora Dank a, T. 176. Erinaceus
ejculentus albus crajfus. Mich. Gen. P. 132. T. 72. Fig. 2.
Echinus petiolatus albicans fuperne fquamofus. Hall Hifl
2324.
I M B R I C A T E D HYDNUM.
TAB. LXXXVIII.
¡TpHE root confifts of a few fibres, iffuing from the club-
T<- ihaped bafe of the item.
The item is white, folid, grofs, 'brittle, of a fpongy fubllance,
and three inches h i g h i n full grown plants the thicknefs
of one's thumb, and fometimes a number of items adhere
together by their fibrous bafes.
. T i l e under fide of the pileus is thickly fet with foft prickles
pointing downwards; thefe are white, and of various lengths,'
from one to three or four lines; they are of u tender, foft fubit
ance.
The pileus is at firfi fmooth and globular, afterwards becomes
convex, fometimes lobed, and gaihed on the margin, the
fides of the lobes lying over each other; but more frequently
only waved or undulated at the margin. I have not found the
furface to be much fcaled or imbricated, though I have been
long acquainted with the plant. The pileus thick and fleihy •
and the whole plant is white, and of a brittle, fpongy fubitance.
The figures in Vaill. Paris, T. 14. Fig. 6, 7, 8. feem
to have been taken from this plant.
Grows in a deep narrow lane, by which you afcend the
wood at North-Bean, near Halifax, in September and Oaober.