BOLETUS. 291 



under beecli-trees in Kew Gardens in Oct., 1886. The 

 typical form also occurred. 



The variety measured 3-4 in. across, convex, then depressed, 

 yellow-brown, tomentose, then broken up into minute squa- 

 mules, flesh ^ in. thick nearly up to the margin, yellow, 

 becoming rose-coloured when cut ; tubes free, convex, ^ in. 

 long where longest, carmine for some distance, changing to 

 olive where the tubes join the pileus, openings angular, com- 

 pound, about ^ mm. across ; stem about 1^ in. long, obconic, 

 1^ in. across at the apex, tapering to a point, yellow, streaked 

 and spotted with carmine, solid, flesh yellow ; spores yellow- 

 brown, elliptic-fusiform, 9x4^. 



D, Tubes pinlcish throughout their length. 



Boletus felleus. Bull. 



Pileus 3— i in. across, convex then expanded, soft, even, 

 glabrous, yellowish-red, foxy, or chestnut, flesh thick, white, 

 becoming dingj^ flesh-colour when broken ; tubes adnate but 

 rather shortened round the stem, f in. deep, pale flesh-colour, 

 darker when bruised, openings irregularly angular, up to 

 1 mm. across; stem 2^—3 in. long, \l in. at the base, thinner 

 upwards, dingy yellow or olive, reticulate with laised lines, 

 solid; spores pale flesh-colour, elongato-elliptic, 16-19 x 4- 

 5 fji. 



Boletus felleus, Bull., t. 379; Cke., Hdbk., p. 260. 



Distinguished by the pale pinkish pores and sj)ores, and by 

 the white flesh becoming pink when cut. Taste bitter. 



Amongst the most beautiful of species, solitary, stem naked, 

 fleshy, almost straight, 2-4 in. long, glabrous, reticulated, 

 subequal, or incrassated at the ba^e, }—l in. thick, in our 

 specimens smoky-olive, white within, towards the apex often 

 greenish, very pale rose-colour when wounded. Pileus fleshy, 

 convex when young, then becoming almost plane, pale chest- 

 nut or fulvous, very glabrous, even, 1^-4 in. broad, flesh 

 white then tinged with dilute rose-colour, very soft and 

 spongy, margin obtuse. Tubes very long, soft, straight, 

 often rosy-white. Pores subrotund, regular, rosy-white, often 

 becoming dingy when touched. (Fries.) 



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