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POLYPOREI. 



Boletus. Subg. II. BOLETINUS. 



No British species. 



Of uncertain affinity. 



41. C. carnosus Rostk. Compact. Pileus fuscous, pulvinate, 

 smooth ; flesh pallid, dirty yellowish. Stem short, firm, some- 

 what striate, rufescent light yellow. Tubes adnate (according to 

 the fig. depressed round the stem), dark yellow; pores rather 

 large, angular, of the same colour. 



According to the fig. the pileus is purplish-fuscous. In woods. Stoke 

 Poges. Name carnosus, fleshy. Rostk, t. 14. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 520. 

 B. & Br. n. 1426. 



Strobilomy- 

 ces. 



GENUS XXII. Strobilomyces Berk. (ff-rpoftiXos, a pine-cone; 



/m.uKris, a fungus). 



Hymenophore quite distinct from the hymenium. Pileus 



fleshy, at length tough. Spores glo- 

 bose or broadly elliptic, minutely 

 rough. Berk. Out. p. 236. 



1. S. strobilaceus Berk. Blackish- 

 umber. Pileus pulvinate, rough 

 with thick floccose scales. Stem 

 equal, veiled, sulcate above. Tubes 

 adnate, white, angular, whitish- 

 brown. 



Pileus tesselated or cracked like the cone 

 of the Scotch fir. 



In fir woods. Very rare. Bull- 

 strode. Ludlow. Haywood Forest, 

 Herefordshire. Oct. 



. Strobilomyces st>obilaceus. 

 One-sixth natural size. Pileus 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) broad, brown- 



umber, tough, pulvinate, broken up into 



large, thick, projecting scales, merging into a thick, floccose, ragged 

 and pendulous, white veil at margin. Stem 7.5-15 cent. (3-6 in.) long, 

 12 mm. (Yz in.) or more thick, solid, equal, coarsely ribrillose, brown at the 

 base, white at the deeply sulcato-reticulated apex, which runs gradually into 

 the tubes. Tubes white, very large, adnate, or with a decurrent tooth, anas- 

 tomosing. The whole plant turns deep sienna-red when cut or bruised. 

 W.G.S. Spores very dark. M.J.B.; oval, nearly globose, stalked, blackish- 

 brown, 9x13 mk. W.G.S. Berk. Out. p. 236.' C. Hbk. n. 734. Boletus 

 strobilaceus Scop. Ann. Nat. Hist. iv. /. i./. i. Berk. Eng. Fl. v. /. 154. 



