GENUS If. BOLETUS. 87 



BOLETUS ftipitatus, pileo jlavofubtomentofo, port's fubangulatis CI. 



deformibus fulvis plants, jlipite flavo. Sp. PL 1647. Poll- f u btementof ul . 

 porus came fecedente pet'tolatus, pileo villofo cervino ports 

 albidls. Hall. Hijl. 231 1. Fungus porofus tenuis coriaceus. 

 Buxbaum Cent. 5. T. 15. Fig. 1. 



WOOLLY BOLETUS. 



TAB. LXXXVII. 



/ "T A HIS pretty Boletus has an hard comprefled root, emitting 

 -*■ numerous black fibres. 



The ftem is of a reddifh brown, an inch or an inch and a 

 half high, often comprefled or fulcated, and of a tough, hard, 

 dry, leathery fubflance. 



The pores are fmall and angulated, but not of equal figure - } 

 their margins are jagged or lafciniated, and of equal height, 

 which gives an appearance of woollinefs to the underfide of the 

 pileus : the colour is a bright fulvous brown. The tubes, at B. 

 are about a line and half in length, and conftitute almoft the 

 whole thicknefs of the pileus ; they are tough, and firmly 

 united together by their whole length. They are reprefented 

 at A. as they appeared when a little magnified. 



The pileus or coat, to which the tubes are affixed, is very 

 thin, as at B. of a tough, hard, vellumy fubftance; of a ful- 

 vous brown on the upper fide, and appears to the eye as if co- 

 vered with fhort filky filaments clofely combed down, from the 

 centre to the margin ; but which, in fad:, are rather fine almoft 

 imperceptibley/rz'tf, infeparable from the furface : the margin is 

 ciliated with brown hairs, and the furface marked with four or 

 five concentric ftripes of a darker colour. 



It is a rare plant here. The fpecimens from which this de- 

 fcription and thefe figures are taken, grew in Robin Hood's Scar, 

 in Southo'wram, near Halifax, in September, 1784. 



