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blotches or streaks of dilute crimson on a yellow ground, 

 apparently twisted, l-2i- in. high, near ^ths diameter. In 

 the larger specimens the base is bulbous. 



" I have never found this species elsewhere than in the spot 

 mentioned below, and no author I meet with has figured it. 

 In its button state the blood-red pileus, the yellow and 

 crimson stained stem, and the fine lemon-coloured pores, 

 render it a beautiful object. I only once found it in an 

 expanded state as described above, growing on the same 

 spot, but am rather doubtful as to the identity of the species. 



" Between the large square stew and the wall in Edgbaston 

 Park.'" 



Boletus sanguineus, Withering, Arr. Brit. PI., ed. 3, 

 vol. iv. p. 319. 



The above is the unabridged description given by 

 Withering, of the fungus called by him Boletus sanguineus ; 

 although in some respects it resembles, from the description, 

 Boletus cJirysenteron, yet it appears to be quite distinct in the 

 short tubes, &c., and the last-named is described very 

 accurately by Withering next to B. sanguineus. 



Whatever the species may be, it is certainly not the 

 Boletus sanguineus. With., of Fries, Epicr., p. 412, and Hym. 

 Eur., p. 500. Fries admits in his latest work that he had 

 never seen the species, but only a figure by Sowerby, 

 tab. 225, which he supposes to represent Withering's plant, 

 and the description given by Fries in Hym. Eur. is a 

 compound of Withering's description and Sowerby's figure, 

 it is also stated to be vi.scid, a character not mentioned by 

 either Withering or Sowerl»y. The following is Sowerby's 

 description of the fungus he calls Boletus communis. Bull., 

 t. 393, and quoted by Fries as Boletus sanguineus, With. 



"Found in woods, frequently of this bright colour, 

 especially when in a young state. It is no less frequently 

 of a duller colour, resembling the pileus oi B. scaher, tab. 175. 

 The yellow or lemon-coloured pores, and their being straight 

 from the edge of the pileus to the stipes (.scarcely decurrent) 

 will readily distinguish the one from the other. Does not 

 Dr. Withering's B. sanguineus, 319, belong to this species? 

 It changes blue when cut." 



Now Sowerljy's figure of what he calls Boletus communis, 

 figured on tab. 225, may be described as follows from the figure. 



