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Fries regards tliis as a variety of B. eJegans ; it requires to be carefully dis- 

 tinguished from B. h.itev.s. Pileus 2-5 in. broad, compact, in moist shady 

 places glutinous and bright -yellow, in exposed situations dry and brown j 

 flesh pale yellow, not changing j tubes unequal, of a golden sulphur, wavy, 

 sometimes with their orifices ruddy. Ring dirty-yellow, membranaceous. 

 Stem 2-3 in. high, 6-9 lines thick, yellow spotted with purple, thickened at 

 the base, reticulated above the ring. — KlotscJu Spores spindle-shaped, yel- 

 lowish-brown, -0003 X -00016 in. 



703. Boletus lazicinus. BerTi. " Larch. Boletus." 



Pileus dirty white, with livid stains, covered at first with dirty 

 yellow or brownish evanescent slime, subsquamose ; stem 

 cribrose above the ring, scrobiculate below, dirty white ; tubes 

 adnate, subdecurrent, compound, at first nearly white. — Berk, 

 Outl.p. 230. Euss.i.t.2D. Eng.Fl.Y.p.USr 



Amongst larch. Sept. Common. 



Pileus 2-3 in. broad, dirty white, with livid stains, and sometimes adpressed, 

 dirty yellow fascicles of filaments, the remains of the slimy ring ; often 

 deeply scrobiculate, covered with dirty yellow or brownish slime, which 

 gradually disappears. Flesh white, very slightly tinged with yellow, not 

 changeable. Tubes adnate or subdecurrent, compound, each consisting of 

 two or three cells, their orifices angular, at first nearly white, with a tinge 

 of yellow, at length brownish from the spores. Stem 2 in. or more high, |-f 

 in. thick, nearly equal, reticulated above the ring, and frequently much, 

 scrobiculated below, dirty white like the pileus, stained with the spores, 

 somewhat downy at the base. Spores oblong, brownish clay- coloured, — 

 Af. J. B. Spores spindle-shaped, pale brown, -00042 X -00017 in.— W. G, S. 



704. Boletus granulatus. L. '• Granulated Boletus." 



Pileus convex, expanded, yellowish, with a brownish, ferru- 

 ginous, evanescent gluten ; stem without a ring, yellowish, punc- 

 tato-granulose above; tubes adnate, short, simple, yellow ; orifice 

 granulated. — Fr. Epicr.p. 410. Schceff. 1. 123. Barla. t. 31, f. 4- 

 12. Lenz.f. 31. Letell. t. 604. Kromhh. t. 34,/. 11-14. Eng. Fl. 

 v.p. 149. Vent.t.h0,f.3. B.lactifluus, Sow. t. 4:20. 



In grass, amongst firs. Aug. Sept. Esculent. [Carohna.] 



Gregarious, csespitose. Pileus 2 in. or more broad, hemispherical, at first 

 covered with a thick rufous brown slime, afterwards dirty rufous or yellowish; 

 flesh thick, white or yellowish, not changeable ; margin at first inflexed and 

 downy. Pores at first whitish, then lemon-coloured, compound, the margin 

 distilling a pale watery milk, which when dried gives them a granulated ap- 

 pearance, at length dii'ty yellow, adnate. Spores ochraceo-ferruginous ; stem 

 1 in. or more high, | in. thick, generally short, but variable, obtuse at the 

 base, rooting, more watery than the pileu.?, pale yellow above, white below, 

 minutely tomentose and granulated, at first covered with milky drops. — 

 M. J. ^.—Spores spindle-shaped, yellowish orange, -0003 X -00013 in. 



A very variable species, but the very glutinous pileus always the same 

 colour, viz., a rich chestnut brown ; tubes and stem sulphur colour, tubes 

 exuding a thin gummy juice, which soon dries in the form of sugary granules. 

 Stem rough, scabrous, as if covered with moist sugar. — W. G. S. 



