260 POLYPOEEI. \^ 



Pileus 3-7 in. or more broad, pulvinate, viscid when moi.-t, very variable in 

 colour, white, cinereous, brown olive, deep orange, or verniiliou, smooth or 

 minutely downy, the down sometimes collected into minute fasciculate scales ; 

 flesh very thick, soft, not changeable in young specimens, in older ones red- 

 dish-grey when bruised, and sometimes blact ; tubes white, pulvinate, 

 etained with the yellow-brown spores, their orifices often ferruginous before 

 the expansion of the pileus, minute, round ; stem 6 in. or more high, atten- 

 uated upwards, sqaarrose with black or orange scales, sometimes marked 

 with coarse-raised lines. At first the stem is ovate and the pileus very nar- 

 row. There are frequent traces of a floccose veil. — M. J. B. Spores spindle- 

 shaped, pale brown, "00055 X '00022 in. I have found a variety at Staple- 

 hurst, with the pUeus suow-white. — W. G. S. 



C. Hyporrhodii — spores roseate. 



730. Boletus alutarius. Fr. " Tan-coloured Boletus." 



Pileus pulvinate, expanded, soft, velvety, tlien smooth, brown- 

 isli-tan ; flesh white ; stem solid, bulbous, nearly even, white ; 

 apex pitted ; tubes depressed about the stem, short, plane, round, 

 white, brown when bruised.-^ — Fr. Epicr.p. 425. Krombh. t. 74,/. 

 8,9. Ann. N.H. no. 34:2. 



In woodland pastures. Bare. 



731. Boletus felleus. Bull. '' Bitter Boletus." 



Pileus pulvinate, soft, smooth, even, brownish or reddish-grey ; 

 stem solid, attenuated upwards, reticulated ; tubes adnate, convex, 

 elongated, angular, white then flesh-coloured, as well as the sub- 

 stance of the pileus when broken. — F?'. Epicr. p. 425. Bull. t. 

 879. Krombk.t.74:,f. 1-7. Aim. N.H. no. Id. Smith, P.M. f. 29. 



In woods, &c. Rare. King's Clifife. 



[Low. and Mid. Carolina.] 



Spores spindle-shaped, salmon colour, '00064 X '0002 in. 



D. LeucospgPvI — spores white. 



732. Boletus cyanescens. Bull. " Sibthorp's Boletus." 



Pileus convexo-expanded, closely tomentose or floccoso-squam- 

 ose, opaque, tan-coloured, becoming brownish ; flesh compact, 

 white, dark-blue when broken ; stem stuffed, then hollow, ven- 

 tricose, villoso-pruinose, of the same colour, constricted above, 

 even, white; tubes free, minute round, white, then yellow. — Fr. 

 Epicr. p. 4:26. Bull. 1.369. Letell. t. 664:. Krombh. t.So,/. 7-9. 

 Seem. Journ. t, 30,/. 7, 8. Roq. t. 8,/. 1. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 154. Barla. 

 t. 37,/. 1-7. 



