Boletus 



POLYPORACE^E 



331 



1515. B. MeWeeneyi W. G. Sm. (after Dr. Edmunds McWeeney), 



Gyrodon rnbelhtm McWeeney, a. 



P. convex, even, smooth, dry, red ; mid. purplish ; marg. 

 yellowish or clouded and streaked bright crimson on a bright 

 yellow ground. St. equal, smooth, even, solid, bright yellow. 

 T. pale yellow. Po . bright yellow. Flesh unchanging bright 

 yellow. 

 On the ground amongst moss. Oct. f x f X T 3 B in. 



SUBGENUS 3. BOLETINUS. 



(Diminutive of Boletus?) 



1515a. B. eavipes Opat. (from the hollow stem; cavils, hollow,/^, a 



foot) a. 



P. convex, umbonate, dry, floccoso-scaly, dull yellow, yellow or 

 pale buff. St. hollow, floccose and pale buff below white A., 

 white above. T. decurrent, somewhat large, compound, pale 

 sulphur. Flesh white, clouded pale buff. 



Autumn. 3^ X 3 X in. 



LX. STROBILOMYCES Berk. 



(From a fancied resemblance in the pileus to a pine-cone ; 

 Gr. strobilos, a pine cone, mtikes, a fungus.) 



Veil white, floccose, appendiculate at the margin of the pileus 

 and forming a fugitive annulus on the stem. Pileus fleshy, tough, 



Fig. 74. Strobilomyces strobilaceus Berk. 



A, section, showing ruptured veil ; B, ditto, young example showing veil intact. 

 One-third natural size. 



broken into scales, hymenophore continuous and homogeneous with 

 the stem. Stem solid. Tubes very large, anastomosing. (Fig. 74.) 



