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B. In feus is very common in pine woods from late summer to 

 early winter. Edible and highly esteemed. 



117. Boletus granulatus L. — Pilous yellowish, smeared with a 

 thick, reddish-brown glutinous covering, convexo-expanded ; flesh 

 light yellowish ; tubes adnate, short ; stalk ringless, light yellowish, 

 often attenuated, and dotted above with granules. 



B. grauitlatits grows in fir woods, often gregariously, and is 

 easily recognised by the minute sugary granules at the mouths of 

 the pores produced by the drying of the milky fluid. Said to be 

 edible. 



118. Boletus bovinus L. — Pileus yellowish or reddish-buff, with 

 a thin, non-separating glutinous covering of the same colour ; flesh 

 white; tubes shallow, somewhat decurrent; pores compound, grey- 

 ish-j'ellow or greenish, becoming brown ; stalk equal, even, of the 

 same colour as the pileus. 



B. bovinus grows locally in woods, chiefly pine ; it is generally 

 gregarious. 



119. Boletus sanguineus With. — Pileus viscid, becoming crim- 

 son-brown and convexo-plane with age ; flesh white, slightly tinged 

 with crimson next the skin, and slowly changing to bluish when cut 

 or broken ; tubes adnate, orange-yellow ; pores large, unequal ; stalk 

 equal, even, bright yellow splashed with crimson. 



In woods, not common. 



120. Boletus piperatus Bull. — Pileus yellow or orange-ochre, 

 sometimes pale, convcxo-plane, smooth, slightly viscid ; tubes 

 decurrcnt, bright ferruginous-red, almost vermilion ; pores large, 

 angular ; stalk slender, even, fragile, same colour as the pileus, 

 containing yellow milk at the base. 



B. pipcrntus is frequent in woods, and very different in appear- 

 ance from the other British species; it is generally small. Acrid, 

 poisonous. 



121. Boletus variegatUS Sw. — Pileus rich yellow, hairy-squamu- 

 lose, convex, then plane, slightly moist, sprinkled with superficial, 

 .separating, fasciculate, hairy squamules ; flesh yellow, changing 

 in places to azure-blue on being cut or broken; tubes adnate, 

 unequal ; pores minute, brown, then cinnamon ; stalk firm, equal, 

 even, deep yellow or reddish 



B. variegatus grows chiefly in pine woods. Odour unpleasant ; 

 taste mild. 



T2 2. Boletus subtomentosus L. — Pileus brown, sometimes tend- 

 ing to olivaceous, soft, dry, velvety, pulvinato-expanded, often fissured, 

 and when cracked the interstices becoming yellow ; flesh white, 

 pallid, brownish beneath the cuticle ; tubes adnate ; pores large, 



