Krombholz gives a detailed account of a, B. eiyikropjfs, 'v.hich is the B. hpiiuis of Fries; the true 

 £. erythropns of Fries and Berkeley is only a variety of B. lundiis. Soil and weather greatly affect the 

 development of these large funguses, and after all we cannot feel satisfied that species have not been 

 formed out of mere sportive subjects. In all our researches, however flattering it may be to personal 

 vanity to fancy puzzling individuals, first novelties, then rarities, genuine honest inquiry brings too often 

 the conviction that " it is only so and so after all." The present prettily banded Boletus has at first a 

 character in the stem different from others, but being identified with the Lurid class by the red orifices of 

 the tubes, and differing not at all in configuration and change of flesh from their type, we must admit 

 that only unusual neatness and prettincss elevated it in the first instance above the vulgar pasture com- 

 munity. It seems, however, to the writer worth notice, because showing the great difference of the members 

 of the same familv. 



