HYDNUM CHRYSOCOMUM II. sp.
Resupinate, forming areas 2-6 cm. each way ; mycelial strands wide-creeping, more or less branched, bright orange-yellow, ex panding here and there to form a membranous subiculum bear ing the bright orange-yellow spines ; subiculum thin, whitish fimbriate at the margin, yellowish within and later bright orange yellow ; spines crowded, 1 mm. or more long, often confluent so as to appear flattened, terete when single, concolorous, rather obtuse.
Growing under much decayed sticks, New Dorp, Staten Is land, New York, October 17, 1896. Smaller and imperfect specimens had been previously found in Indiana and Alabama, with well-developed mycelium and scanty spines. A well-marked species and easily recognized by its brilliant mycelial strands and the color of its spines.