POLTPOEEI. 



261 



In woods. Oxford, Neatishead, &c. 



" Pileus 2-5 in. broad, rigid, pale, straw-coloured, subfuliginons, the 

 margin acute ; flesh, white, when broken changing instantly to the most 

 beautiful azure blue, and when squeezed distilling a blue juice; tubes short, 

 when young scarcely a line long, white or lemon-coloured ; stem distinct 

 from the pSeus, the apex contracted, brittle, never reticulated, but villoso- 

 pruinose."— i^/^'e^'. 



Tubes very pale lemon colour. Spores white, or with a suggestion of 

 sulphur, spindle-shaped, "0006 in. long. It has now been recorded in 

 Oxfordshire, Norfolk, Herts, Surrey, Devon, and Beds (Abbot). 



733. 



Boletus castaneus. Bull. " Chestnut Boletus." 



Pileus convex, expanded or depressed, firm, opaqne, yelyety, 

 cinnamon ; stem stuffed, then hollow, attenuated from the some- 

 what bulbous base, cinnamon ; flesh white, unchangeable ; tubes 

 free, short, round, white, then dirty-yellow. — Fr. Epicr. jj. 426. 

 Bull. t. 328. Euss. ii. 1. 17. Eng. Fl. Y.p. 152. Barla. t. 32,/. 11- 

 15. 



In woods. Eare. Highgate. 



[Mid. Carolina.] 



Pileus 3 in. broad, depressed when old, but broadly pulvinatein the centre, 

 subtomentose, the down raised up into little flat scales, beautiful dark- 

 rufous tan ; flesh thick, mottled, stained beneath the cuticle with the colour 

 of the pileus, not changing colour, viscid, insipid or subacid ; tubes vi\dd 

 yellow, half-free, not reaching to the extreme margin ; spores yellow ; stem 

 sometimes short, swelling in the centre, attenuated below, hollow, sometimes 

 long and equal, beautifully tinged with yellow and rufous.— J/./. -B. 



Gen. 19. 



STROBILOMYCES, Berk. 



Hymen oph ore quite distinct 

 from the hymenium. Pileus 

 fleshy, at length tough. Spores 

 globose, or broadly elliptic, mi- 

 nutely rough. — M. J. B. 



{Fig. 63.) 



734. 



Fig. 63. 



Stzobilomyces strobilaceus. 



Berh. *' Cone-like Boletus." 



Blackish umber. Pileus pulvinate, rough with thick floccose 

 scales ; stem equal, veiled, sulcate above ; tubes adnate, white, 



