86 An HISTORY of FUNGUSSES. 



C. BOLETUS Jlipitatus, pileo parvo con'oexo glabro, poris tenuijjimis 

 procerus. numerqfis albidis, Jlipite longo medio crajfo. 



TALL BOLETUS. 



TAB. LXXXVI. 



npHE root confifts of numerous fibres, ifluing from the bafe 

 -*- of the ftem. The Item is obtufely pointed at the bafe, 

 from whence the lower part greatly increafes in thicknefs, for 

 the fpace of an inch or two, and then gradually decreafes again 

 to the top. The colour is apaledufky olive; the fubftancehard 

 and brittle; the height five or fix inches. 



The pileus is at firft globular, afterwards becomes femioval, 

 or highly convex; the furface is fmooth, dry, and to the touch 

 feels like fine cloth; it is of a pale dufky olive colour; the 

 flefh white and brittle. The tubes are cylindrical, very fine and 

 white; the pores white, and fo minute as not to be difcerned 

 by the naked eye. In decay the whole turns to a dirty brown, 

 and difiblves in a turbid gelly. 



This is a rare fpecies ; the fpecimens here figured, I ga- 

 thered in WoodhouJ'e-Woody and I have feen the plant in feveral 

 other places about Halifax. 



I find no defcription or figure which agrees exaclly with this 

 plant. Is it a naked variety of the Fungus cincerce forma, Arti- 

 choke mufhroom, of Parkinson, P. 1324. No. 25. which 

 he fays grows at Ripton, near Jlfljford, on Bromley-Gree?i, &c. 

 and which is well figured by my ingenious friend Dickson, in 

 his PI. Crypt. Fas. 1. T. 2. F . 1 ? — I have fometimes obferved 

 a faint relemblance of fcalinefs on the ftem of my plant, but 

 the pileus is conftantly fmooth from firft to laft. 



