122 A CATALOGUE OF ESCULENT BRITISH FUNGI. 



(155.) BOLETUS ^STIVALIS; The Summer Bolet. 



Habitat. In pastures and parks near copses ; in woodlands. 

 Solitaiy. 



Season. May to August. Tolerably common. 



Fileus. Four to eight inches across, grey, grey-brown, umber, 

 soft, silky, becoming rivulose and granulate ; convex, then expand- 

 ing, pulvinate, unequally plane. 



Stem. Two to five inches high, dingy white, stout, firm, even, 

 smooth, incrassate below, naked. 



Pores. Pallid- white, yellow, lastly greenish. 



Section. Flesh white, soft, unchanging. Stem solid. Tubes 

 pallid, then greenish, elongate, cylindrical, minute, even. Odour 

 faint. Taste sweet and nutty. Spores greenish-brown. 



Obs. One of the largest and best in quality of the genus. In chapter vii. 

 —W. D. H. 



(156.) BOLETUS BADIUS; The Bay Bolet. 



Habitat. On high ground in woods of fir and pine. Solitary. 



Season. August to October. Rare. 



Piletcs. Some two inches across, bay-tawny, soft, polished, 

 viscid in wet, smooth ; convex, pulvinate, rounded. 



Stem. One to two inches high, pale bay, farinose, nearly even, 

 sub-attenuate, not bulbous, smooth,, naked. 



Pores. Pale yellow, becoming greenish. 



Section. Flesh pallid, slightly blueing on exposure, soft, thick, 

 stem solid. Tubes large, angular, sinuate, depressed, adnate, 

 yellow-green. Odour feeble. Taste good. Spores dingy green. 



Ohs. Not well known, but it is eaten abroad and is quite wholesome.— 

 W. D. n. 



(157.) BOLETUS BOVINUS ; The Ox Bolet. 



Habitat. Heathy woods of fir and pine. In groups. 



Season. September and October. I^ot uncommon. 



Pileus. One to three inches across, dusky, red-brown, or tawny- 

 buff, smooth, glossy, viscid in wet ; rounded, then convex, pulvi- 

 nate, expanding, undulate. Margin incurved, at first white and 

 tomentosc, soon yellow and glutinous. 



Stem. Two to three inches high, tint of pilous, striate, not 

 thick, cylindrical, equal, smooth, naked, sub-flexuose. 



