. PROPERTIES OF CRYPTOGAMIC PLANTS. 101 



family being poisoned by eating this plant. Roques, Cliamp. 

 Comest. 145. 



Boletus tiiberaster, Jacq. (See Polyjyorus.) 



Merat, in his Supplem. vol. 1846, mentions tliis as tlie Pietrra 

 fungaria of the Italians. Jasparini, in 1840, presented a memoir 

 to the Academy on the subject, in which it is described as an 

 enormous fungus, made up of heterogenous vegetable produc- 

 tions, and proposing to call it Micelithe fungifera. 



They employ in China a boletus which is called Fo-lin, for 

 fevers and eruptive diseases, on account of its sudorific powers : 

 it is given in doses of 3 grains in a cup of water. O^). cit. 116. 



Boletus anmilarius, Bull., Champ. 332 ; D. C. 



" annulatus^ Pers., Syn. 303. 



" luteus of Schaeff., Fung. 114. 

 De CandoUe forbids the use of this plant as an article of food, 

 in which Roques coincides. Hist, des Champs. 156. 



Boletus cinereus, Pers., Syn. 504 ; Roques. \ B. floe. N. C. 



" floccopus, Fries, Syst. Myc. i. 373. ) to Pa. (H. W. R.) 



Although Micheli states that it has been employed for food in 



Tuscany, yet Roques advises us to avoid it, as its character is not 



well made out. Hist, des Champs. Yen. 159. 



Boletus aereus, Bull. 583 ; Roques, Cliamp. Comest. 12T. 



This Boletus, found around Paris, and in the l!^orth of Europe 

 also, is thought by some to be superior to the B. edulis, on 

 account of its delightful flavor. The celebrated author, says 

 Roques, of the Almanack des Gourmands, prefers it to all known 

 mushrooms ; and he passes his life in the woods to collect these 

 divine cryptogams {ces divins cryjytogames a tete de negre), as he 

 calls them. The authors of the Champignons Comest. et Yen, 

 and of the Physiologic du Gout, can scarcely contain their enthu- 

 siam in recounting the many admirable qualities of this delicious 

 plant, among others, claiming for it the power of quickening the 

 fancy, imparting superiority to the intellect, and a pleasing forget- 

 fulness amid the gloom and despondency which follow adversity. 

 " Que de bon mots, que d'heureuses saillies, lorsqu' on les servait 

 tout fumants sur sa table ! II faut avoir regu le feu sacre pour 



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