GENUS II. BOLETUS. 7g 



BOLETUS acaulis Icevis, carnofus fanguineus mollis obfcure XCII. 

 lobatus. Light foot Scot. 1034. Hudfon Angl. P. 625. hefaucus* 

 No. 5. — Poliporus fefjilis fanguineus crajfus mollis obfcure 

 lobatus. Hall. Hijl. 2315. — Agaricus porofus rubeus car- 

 nofus hepatis facie. RaySyn. P. 23. No. 21. Mich. Gen. 

 T. 60. Ord. 1. Battara, T. 34. Fig. A. 



LIVER BOLETUS, 



TAB. LXXIX. 



TT grows horizontally, in the cavities of living oak trees, ad- 

 A hering by a narrow bafe, and fpreading out on each fide, 

 affumes an almoft circular figure. The margin gently waved. 

 The furface is liver-coloured, very fmooth, and cold to the 

 touch : in fome fpecimens there is a tinge of green mixed 

 in the hue, efpecially in the larger plants. It is convex near 

 the bafe, on the upper fide, but flat towards the margin : — the 

 under fide is more flat towards the bafe, convex and projecting 

 at the margin. The fubftance or flefh, within, is of a firm 

 clofe texture, of a liver colour, with veins and fpots of white. 



The tubes are cylindrical, very numerous, about three lines 

 in length, of a pale yellow colour ; as are alfo the numerous 

 pores. 



This is faid to be of the efculent kind; I have found it to 

 tafte almoft like lamb's flefh, but how far it is to be trufted I 

 know not. 



The fpecin-^n now defcribed, grew in an hollow cavity in 

 the ffock of a living oak tree, in the Sbroggs> in Ovenden, near 

 Halijax, October 27, 1785. 



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