330 POLYPORACEVE Boletus 



j. Carlo see. 



1511. B. eyaneseens Bull, (from the change of colour in the flesh to 



blue ; cyaneuSj dark blue) a b c. 



P. convex, floccoso-scaly, brownish-ochre. St. equal to clavate, 



spongy-cavernous, dry, cracking, slightly annulate when young, 



squamose, corticate, colour as P. T. adnato- or adnexo- 



rounded, yellowish-white or faintly-shaded olive. Flesh 



yellowish- or brownish-white, changing to blue. 



Taste none. Woods, mixed ; rare. July-Sept. 3| X 3^ X 1^ in. Whole 

 plant dry like 1516, drying in decay, not decomposing. Wholly veiled in 

 infancy by a thick floccose coat. Changes to sulphur-yellow when dry. 



1512. B. eastaneus Bull, (from the colour of the pileus ; eastanea, the 



chestnut) a b e. 



P. convex, expanded, velvety, sometimes becoming repand, 



yellowish-white or vinous-cream, then cinnamon. St. clavate, 



velvety, corticate, cracking transversely, stuffed to hollow, 



colour as P. T. free, whitish-sulphur to pale primrose, 



becoming clouded or spotted pale brownish. Flesh white. 



Woods, pastures under trees, amongst brambles ; rare. Aug. -Oct. 

 3j x 2| x f in. 



1513. B. fulvidus Fr. (from the yellowish-brown or tawny pileus ; 



fulvus, tawny) a b. 



P. convex to plane, smooth, shining, rigid, yellowish- or 

 brownish-orange. St. equal to subclavate, cracking, stuffed to 

 hollow, colour as P., paler below. T. free, white to sulphur- 

 yellowish. Flesh white to yellowish. 



Taste sweet, nutty. Under trees, oak. Aug.-Sept. 2§ x 2§ x § in. 



Subgenus 2. Gyrodon. 

 (From the gyroso-toothed tubes ; Gr. odous, a tooth.) 



1514. B. esespitosus Mass. (from the csespitose habit) a. 



P. hemispherical, tomentose, dry olivaceous-umber; marg. pale 



rose. St. solid, even, glabrous, yellow, base dull red. T. very 



short. Po. yellow. Flesh firm, yellow, changing to dark blue or 



bluish-black, then rufous fading to dull white, dingy-red at base. 



Densely fasciculate, stems more or less connate at base. Under trees, 

 amongst grass. Aug. 2^ x i\ X 1 in. 



1514a. B. Sistotrema Fr. (from the resemblance in the tubes to those 



of Sistotrema) a. 



P. fleshy at mid., thin at marg. where it is flattened above and 



below, glabrous, dry, rufous- or yellowish-brown. St. equal or 



slightly enlarged below, even, pallid rufous or as T., tinged 



pale brown. T. adnate, short, unequal, yellow-tawny or pale 



yellowish-sulphur. Po. becoming gyroso-plicate. Flesh white 



clouded pale sulphur. 



Dry woods. Autumn. 2§ x 2f x § in. Var. brachyporus W. G. Sm. 



{Boletus brachyporus Rostk.) P. white. St. white, pale sulphur below. 



T. pale sulphur. Flesh sulphur-white. Changing to pale green where 

 touched. 



