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SARCODON Quelet. S. ImbRICATUS (L.) Karst. (Hydnum imbricatum L.). Fayette: in oak woods near Nutallburg (Nuttall, 988). HYDNELLUM Karsten. H. velutinUM (Fries.) Banker. (Hydnum velutinum Fr.). Fayette: near Nuttallburg (Nuttall, 880). H. Nuttallii Banker, Mem. Torr. Bot. Club, 12:155 (1906). Plant terrestrial, mesopodous, medium size ; pileus obconic, deeply depressed to infundibuliform, somewhat round, thickest at the center, thinning uniformly to the margin, 4 to 6 cm. wide, 1 cm. or less thick near the center; surface subeven, radiately subrugose or fibrillose when fresh, gray ish umber; margin thin, acute, coarsely plicate or fluted, deflexed, curled when dried, subfertile with short teeth; sub stance spongy-tomentose in upper half of pileus, thickest at the center, umber, lower part of pileus harder more compact darker of uniform thickness about 1 mm., continuous with hard central core of stem ; stem central, uneven, surrounded below by bulbous mass of spongy tomentum, 0.5 cm. wide, 4 cm. long, bulbous base 1.5 cm. wide; teeth capillary more or less decurrent, dark umber to black, 7 mm. or less long, 0.15 to 0.25 mm. wide, about 2 to 1 millimeter, longest teeth about one-fourth of the distance from the stem to the mar gin; spores apparently few, subtuberculate, subglobose, brownish, 4 to 5 /a wide. The plant in structure is similar to H. velutinum, but very distinct in the form of the pileus, in its subrugose not to mentose surface, and in the long capillary teeth. Fayette: on ground beneath old decayed log, February 13, 1893. near Nuttallburg (Nuttall, 844). Reported in Millspaugh & Nuttall Flora as Hydnum sp. TREMELLODON Pers. T. GelATiNosuM (Scop.) Pers. On dead Tsuga Canadensis Aug. 13, 1893 (Nuttall, 1148I IRPEX Fr. I. LACTEUS Fr. On dead Rhus hirta, Monongalia Co., near Morgantown (Millspaugh). I. SINUOSUS Fr. On dead sticks, Dec. 10. 1893 (Nuttall, 1309, 255). I. OBLiQuus (Schrad.) Fr. ? On Magnolia' Fraseri, Feb. 8. 1804 (Nuttall, 1385, 347").