This species is very plentiful in our woods, among the leaves under beech trees. They grow in lines for some distance, the caps so close together that they are very frequently confluent. I found the plant at Salem, and in several other localities in the state, although I have never seen a description of it. Any one will be able to recognize it from Figure 371. It grows in the woods in August and September.
Hydnum Blackfordæ. Pk.
The pileus is fleshy, convex, glabrous, grayish or greenish-gray, flesh whitish with reddish stains, slowly becoming darker on exposure; aculei subulate, 2–5 mm. long, yellowish-gray, becoming brown with age or drying; stem equal or stuffed, becoming hollow in drying; glabrous, colored like the pileus; spores brown, globose, verrucose, 8–10µ broad.
The pileus is 2.5–6 cm. broad; stem 2.5–4 cm. long, 3–4 mm. thick.
Mossy ground in low springy places in damp mixed woods. August. Peck.
This species was found at Ellis, Mass., and was sent to me through courtesy of the collector, Mrs. E. B. Blackford, Boston, for whom it was named.
Hydnum fennicum. Karst.
Figure 372.—Hydnum fennicum. Natural size, showing the teeth.