. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. 233 ORDER III.—HYDNEI. Hymenium inferior or amphigenous, from the first figurate, and definitely but variously protuberant in the form of persistent spines, teeth, tubercles, crests, papillae. Sporophore sometimes single-spored. The greater part are resupinate and effused, and hence they are inferior to the Agaricini, which are commonly circular o?i a central stem, and to the Polyporei, which are most frequently dimidiate. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 598. X-2 GENUS XXXII. — Hydnum (SSvov, the Greek name for a kind Hyd of edible fung


. British fungi (hymenomycetes). Basidiomycetes; Fungi -- Great Britain. 233 ORDER III.—HYDNEI. Hymenium inferior or amphigenous, from the first figurate, and definitely but variously protuberant in the form of persistent spines, teeth, tubercles, crests, papillae. Sporophore sometimes single-spored. The greater part are resupinate and effused, and hence they are inferior to the Agaricini, which are commonly circular o?i a central stem, and to the Polyporei, which are most frequently dimidiate. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 598. X-2 GENUS XXXII. — Hydnum (SSvov, the Greek name for a kind Hyd of edible fungus). Linn. Gen. Plant. Hymenium inferior, aculeate; spines awl-shaped, distinct at the base. The central genus of the order, various, analogous with the Polypori. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 598. I. MESOPUS (, middle; Trot!?, a foot). Entire, simple, with a central stem. All growing on the ground and chiefly in pine woods. f Carnosa. Pileus fleshy, somewhat fra- gile. Most of them edible. * Spines changing colour, pileus scaly ot- to men tose. ** Spines changing colour, pileus even, smooth. *** Spines unchangeable, unicolorous, whitish. ft Lignosa. Pileus corky or coriaceous, tough. * Spines changing colour, and, as well as the spores, somewhat fuscous. ** Spines changing colour, and, as well as the spores, ferruginous. *** Spines unchangeable and spores whit- ish. LXXIII. Hydnum repandnm. One-third natural size. Section twice natural size. II. PLEUROPUS lateral. III. MERISMA and immarginate. * Very much branched. ** Simple, tuberculiform, immarginate. v, the side ; ™k, a foot). Somewhat dimidiate, stem , to divide). Very much branched or tuberculiform. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stevenson, John, d. 1893. Edinburgh : Blackwood


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