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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906. Excerpt: ... Exs1cc: Shear, New York Fung. 114. The collections indicate that the species varies greatly in form and habit. It also undergoes considerable change in appearance during growth. Hydnum conchiforme appears to me to be a young state of the plant. 2. Steccherinum Rhois (Schw.) Hydnum Rhois Schweinitz, Syn. Fung. Car. Sup. 77. 1818. Hydnum flabelliforme Berkeley, Lond. Jour. Bot. 4: 306. 1845. Plant pileate, short stipitate, subsessile, or effused to resupinate, subimbricate, laterally confluent; pileus flabelliform to subdimidiate, horizontal or ascending, narrowing behind, 1.5-2.5 cm. wide, 1-3 cm. long, surface sulcate-zonate, often radiately rugose, strigose-hairy to subtomentose, the strigose character more marked toward the margin, light gray on older and more exposed pilei, light buff on younger and more protected parts; margin entire, repand, subfertile or sterile less than 0.5 mm. incurved or reflexed, puberulent; substance fibrous, tough, dry, thin; stem lateral, short, vertically compressed, less than 5 mm. long or wanting and plant spreading back resupinately over the substratum; hymenium ochraceous, whitish-pubescent, often delimited behind; teeth crowded short, more or less decurrent, ochraceous to buff, compressed, often forked, whitish-puberulent, 1-2 mm. long, 3 and 4 to one millimeter; spores elliptical or oblong, smooth, granular, hyaline, 2-2.5 by 3-3-5 fi', tasteless, odorless. Hab.: On dead Liquidambar, Nyssa, Rhus, Mohrodendron, Quercus. Throughout the year. Range: Pennsylvania, Banker; Maryland, Richer; New Jersey, Ellis; South Carolina, Ravenel; Alabama, Earle; Florida, Rolfs; Ohio, Morgan; Indiana, Undenvood; Texas, Billings, Hods on. Exs1cc.: Ravenel, Fung. Am. Exsicc. 455 (as Hydnum ochraceuni); Ellis, N. Am. Fung. 605, as Hydnum o...
