Plate XLIX. Figure 368.—Hydnum septentrionale.
Grew from a small opening in a living beech tree.
Septentrionale, northern. This is a very large, fleshy, fibrous plant, growing usually upon logs and stumps.
There are many pilei growing one above the other, plane, margin straight, whole. The spines are crowded, slender and equal.
I have found a number of specimens about Chillicothe that would weigh from eight to ten pounds each. The plant is too woody to eat. Besides, it seems to have but little flavor. I have always found it on beech logs, from September to October.
A very large plant grows every year on a living beech tree on Cemetery Hill.
Hydnum spongiosipes. Pk.
Figure 369.—Hydnum spongiosipes. One-third natural size.