1 64 APPENDIX. 



CCXII. BOLETUS -fcjilis lobato multiformis, fuperos villofus aurentiacw 

 bttrodim. inferus luteo-aureus, tubis brevibus, -ports multiformis*. 



Agaricus multiplex porofus, Ray, Syn. P. 23, No. 13. 



IRREGULAR BOLETUS. 



TAB. CLXIV: 



THIS grows on the ground, and from an hard tough root, 

 which is white within, and of a coriaceus fubftance ; it 

 fhoots out feveral flat pieces, which lay on the furface of the 

 earth, in an horizontal direction. 



In the progrefs of growth it becomes lobed ; the lobes imbri- 

 cated, divided, and fubdivided ; their figure and difpofition very- 

 wild, irregular, and uncertain. 



The upper furface is thickly covered with a rough hairy pile 

 or ihag ; while the plant is young of a golden colour, changing 

 to an orange brown with age. The internal fubftance, at B. is 

 thin, white, tough, and leathery. 



The tubes are fhort, united together by their fides, and in- 

 feparable from the flefli; they are of a tough fubftance, and a 

 golden yellow. 



The pores, at A. are very different in fhape and bignefs ; fome 

 large, others fmall ; fome round, others oval or oblong, as ex.- 

 preffed in the figure ; their colour varies with age, from a pale 

 bright yellow to an orange brown. 



I gathered fpecimens of this under oak trees, near Fixby-H.ill, 

 and fpecimens of the fame have been fent me from the bifhopric 

 of Durham.. 



