i6s APPENDIX. 



CCX. BOLETUS acatdis coriaceo convexus -vcllofus albus, ports dijfor~ 



fubim/ut. mibus rotundis jlexuofifque. Flo. fuecica, 1253. Sp. PL 



1645. Scbaf. A 92. No, 105, Bulliard texte, 354. No. 3$. 



CORK BOLETUS. 



TAB. CLXII. 



THIS is halved and feffile, growing to the ftocks of trees by 

 one fide; the upper furface, while the plant is young, is 

 white, and covered with a white, foft, fhort down ; when old 

 it changes to a pale brown, and becomes fmooth, as at D. in 

 both ftates it is highly convex, and is, though fmooth, made un- 

 even by rifing bunches. 



The lower furface is generally but little convex, or almoft flat, 

 as at A. B. The bafe is fometimes extended downwards, and the 

 margin continued quite round, as at C. 



The pores are various; fome round and diftinct, others 

 lengthened out into long waving hollows ; fometimes they fhoot 

 down in bundles of various forms, refembling, in miniature, 

 bunches of Icicles, or the figures that are formed in the fides of 

 caverns by the congealed calcarious drop. 



When dried it has a fmell like anifeeds, or the common pecloral 

 lozenges. Is it fpecifically diftinc^l from the Boletus fuaveolens, 

 Linn. ? 



Grows on old fallow trees, This fpecimen grew in a hedge 

 near Sbibden-Hall j I have received the fame plant from 

 Darlington. 



