BOLETUS. 



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apex, yellowish downwards, rufescent and delicately pubescent Boletus, 

 upwards. Tubes minute, free, yellow. 



The flesh of the pileus and stem is pale, here and there inclining to yellow, 

 and partially marbled. Approaching B. subtomentosus in habit, but with the 

 bulbous reticulated stem of Calopodes. 



In woods, &c. Uncommon. Aug.-Sept. 



Xame — variits and color. From the various colours. B. & Br. n. 1020. 

 t. 13./. 3. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 506. C. Hbk. 71. 715. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 6yj. 



22. B. calopus Fr. — Pileus olivaceous, globose then pulvinate, 

 unpolished, somewhat tome7itose j flesh pallid, becoming some- 

 what azure-blue. Stem firm, conical then somewhat equal, reti- 

 culated, scarlet, throughout or at the apex. Tubes adnate ; pores 

 minute, angular, yellow. 



Stem at length of the same colour as the pileus downwards and elongated. 

 Pileus not involute, somewhat repand. 



In mixed woods. Frequent. July-Sept. 



Spores spindle-shaped, yellowish-brown, 8x3 mk. W.G.S. Names— /coAd?, 

 beautiful ; novs, a foot. With beautiful stem. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 506. »S"z'. 

 iitl. Sv. t. 69. Berk. Out. p. 232. C. Hbk. n. 716. S. Mycol. Scot. 71. 678. 

 Kro?7ibh. t. 37. f. 1-7. Rostk. t. 27. Harz. t. 69. Saund. & Sm. t. 14. 

 —Schceff. t. 315. 



23. B. olivaceus Schaeff. — Pileus olivaceous-fuscous, convex, 

 even, becoming smooth, margin at first infiexed; flesh azure blue, 

 then white. Stem firm, clavate, bulbous, red, yellowish at the 

 apex, with blood-red reticulations and dots. Tubes adnate, 

 curt; pores minute, unequal, light yellow-olivaceous. 



Stature curt, robust. 



In beech woods. Uncommon. Sept. 



Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) and more broad. Stem short. Xame — oliva, 

 an olive. Olivaceous in colour. Schceff. t. 105. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 506. Be/k. 

 Out. p. 233. C. Hbk. 71. jij. S. Mycol. Scot. 71. 679. Ventur. t. 36./. 3, 4. 

 — Rostk. t. 32. 



24. B. pachypus Fr. — Pileus 10-20 cent. (4-8 in.) broad, fus- 

 cous then pallid-tan, pulvinate, somewhat tomentose; flesh thick, 

 whitish, becoming slightly azure-blue. Stem 5-12.5 cent. (2-5 

 in.) long, always thick, firm, curt, ovato-bulbous, then elongated, 

 equal, reticulated, variegated light yellow and red, often wholly 

 intensely blood-red. Tubes somewhat elongated, shortened round 

 the stem; pores round, light yellow, at length somewhat green. 



Larger than preceding species, handsomer, approaching Edules in habit. 

 In woods, chiefly pine. Uncommon. Sept. -Oct. 



