Boletus 



POLYPORACE/E 



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

 Gyrodon rubellum 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 § X T 3 S in. 



Subgenus 3. Boletinus. 



(Diminutive of Boletus.) 



1515a. B. eavipes Opat. (from the hollow stem; cavus, 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, mttkes, 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.) 



