9 o AN HISTORY OF FUNGUSSES.
CIV. HYDNUM ßipitatum pileo dimidiato. Sp. PI. 1648. Hudfon
aurifialpum. Angl. 629. Echinus petiolo gracili later alt, pileolo piano
obfcuro. Hall. Hiß. 2321. Roßs Elem. T. 3. Fig. 2. b.
Buxbaum-Cent. 1. 1'. 57. Fig. 1. Mich. Gen. P. 132.
CT. 78. Fig. 8. Schaf. Fung. T. 143. Boletus pileo orbiculari,
&c. Gleditfch, P. 74. No. 7.
E A R P I C K HY D N U M .
T A B . XC.
'T^HE Hem is bulbous or fwollen at the bafe, where it adheres
to the decaying cones of fir, without any vifible radical
fibres; from the bafe the item gradually diminiihes in thicknefs,
fometimes it is divided into two or three branches or
divifions, each whereof fuftains its own proper pileus; it is covered,
from the bafe almoft to the top of the item, with upright,
ftiff, brown hairs, is of a dark fufcous brown colour, and a
tough dry elaftic fubftance j the height in a full grown plant
about two inches.
The pileus is fometimes circular, but more frequently Oblong,
femicircular, or kidney-ihaped. The item often placed
out of the centre, fometimes at one fide; it is flat or convex,
the centre fometimes elevated, fometimes deprefled, always of
a dark brown colour, and a dry tough fubftance; the under fide
a little paler; the fpines are dry, tough, hard, unequal in
length, and of a brown colour.
Grows under fir trees, in plantations about Halifax, in
Auguft and September.
In a natural arrangement, will not the Hydni and Boleti
touch each other, between this plant and the Boletus tomentofus?