128 A CATALOGUE OF ESCULENT BRITISH FUNGI. 



stuffed or hollow. Tubes greenish, elongate, short behind, round, 

 simple, adnexed. Odour slight. Taste agreeable. Spores yel- 

 lowish. 



Obs. In spite of having been su.spected, it seems to be quite wholesome. 

 But it is hard, and only young and tender plants should be gathered. It is of 

 inferior quality. — W. D. H. 



(170.) BOLETUS SCABEE ; The Rough Bolet. 



Habitat. In woods. Solitary. 



Season. July to September. Common. 



Pileus. Three to six inches across, dusky brown or bistre, 

 smooth, tomentose, viscid in wet ; at first narrow and orbicular, 

 then convex, pulvinate. 



Stem. Four to eight inches high, white-brown, tuberculose, 

 scabrous and corrugate, thick, attenuate upward, coarse and 

 rough, naked. 



Fores. Minute, round, pulvinate, whitish, a little rusty at edges. 



Section. Flesh thick, white, soft, unchanging in youth, redden- 

 ing or blackening when mature. Stem staffed, fibrous. Tubes 

 small, elongate, fi'ee, dirty white. Odourless. Taste somewhat 

 salt. Spores pale brown. 



Obs. In chapter vii. A ■well known and very commendable esculent. — 

 IT'. D. H. 



(171.) BOLETUS SUBTOMENTOSUS ; The Yellow-crack Bolet. 



Habitat. In woods. Singly or scattered. 



Season. July to October. Common. 



Pileus. Two to four inches across, bronze, olive brown, I'imose 

 with lemon yellow ; pulvinate, expanded, convexo-plane ; soft, 

 dry, subtomentose. 



Stem. Three to five inches high, yellow, marked with red, 

 slender, bent, striato-sulcate, punctate above, sub-incrassato at 

 base, naked. 



Pores. Primi'osc, l)ecoming greenish, coarse. 



Section. Flesh thickish, soft, brittle, yellowish, blueing or not. 

 Stem stuffed, fibrous. Tubes large, irregular, angular, elongate, 

 greenish, short behind, rather remote. Odour slight and pleasant. 

 Taste peculiar, good. Spores brownish yellow. 



Obg. In chapter vii. Closely allied to B. chryscnteron, but of somewhat 

 better flavour.— JF. D. II. 



