84 An HISTORY of FUNGUSSES. 

 Such as are fupported on a central ftem. 



XCvTH. BOLETUS Jlipitatus, pileo puhinato Jubvifcido, pons rotundalis 

 luteus. convexis flavijfimis, Jiipite albido. Sp. PI. 1647. Hudfon 



Angl. 627. Schcef. Fung. T. 103. Ceriomyces pileo for- 

 ?iicato. Battarra, C T. 29. Fig. C. Boletus luteus. Dillen. 

 C.Gifs. T. 10. No. 1. Fungus porofus autumnalis vijcidus. 

 Buxbaum, Cent- 5. T. 14. Fungus ranarum. Sterb, 

 T. 17. I. M. Hedwig Crypt. T. 36. Fig. 210. 



YELLOW BOLETUS. 



TAB. LXXX1V. 



npHE root confifts of a tuft of dawny fibres, iifuing from 

 -*■ the bafe of the ftem, by means whereof the plant adheres 

 firmly to the ground. 



The ftem is folid, fpongy, generally largeft near the root, 

 and three or four inches high ; the colour is variable, in fome 

 fpecimens of a pale, in others of a deep yellow ; fometimes 

 olive-coloured, or dufky ; in full grown plants frequently 

 ftrongly tinged with a fine bright crimfon or blood colour, on 

 the upper part, which is loft on the lower, where it becomes 

 dulky 01 brown, olive, ftraw colour, or green. 



The curtain is of an extremelv tender and delicate texture, 

 and vanifties almoft as foon as the rim of the pileus feparates 

 from the ftem ; fometimes, however, I have feen it in plants of 

 an advanced growth, as is expreiTed in the plate. The tubes 

 are cylindrical, longeft in the middle,, where they adhere to the 

 ftem by their fides. The pores are round, and of a bright yel- 

 low, turning to a dirty green in decay. 



The pileus is cufhion-ftiaped, at firft glutinous and yellow, 

 changing in its progrefs to olive, dulky brown, and various 

 other hues 3 the flem is of a pale yellow, thick, brittle, and 

 fpongy. 



Grows in woods about the roots of trees, in July and 

 Auguft ; it is the moft early of the autumnal Fungi. 



