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BOLETUS fubacaulis planiufculus lacerato-fquamofus fiavefcens, xc. 

 poris tetragonis. Hudfon Angl. 626. — Boletus juglandis. / iUamo / u ,. 

 Schcef. Fung. T. 101, 102. Auricula jlammea male hi. Ster. 

 Fung. P. 105. T. 13, 14. Fig. omn. 



SCALY BOLETUS. 



TAB. LXXVII. 



^T^HIS grows from the fides of trees, in a drooping direction, 

 ■*■ fometimes in vaft imbricated clufters of various fizes, 

 from fix to twelve inches in diameter, and adhering to the tree 

 by one fide, without any vifible footftalk; fometimes there is a 

 vifible root, as in the plant before me. 



In this fpecimen there is a root, confiding of a roundifh 

 lump, the fize of a cat's head ; it is of a firm, compact, tough 

 fubftance ; white within, and a dufky brown on the outfide : on 

 being cut it yields in drops from the wound, a tranfparent fluid, 

 acrid to the tafte ; from the root the ftem contracts for about an 

 hand's breadth, and then gradually fpreads out into the fub- 

 ftance of the plant. 



The furface is of a pale yellowifli brown colour, with nu- 

 merous feather-like fcales, which adhere to the furface, and are 

 arranged in a kind of wild concentric circles. The root fuf- 

 tained one principal plant, and two others much fmaller, ifiuing 

 out of the neck or footftalk of the large one, as exprefled in 

 the figure. The large one meafured from fide to fide, in the 

 broadeft part, twenty-two inches ; from the bafe of the root to 

 the extreme margin twenty-four inches; the internal fubftance 

 is white,' fpongy, and greedily devoured by the larva of infects. 



The pores are very large and angular, confifting of an un- 

 equal number of fides, the tubes ihort and ihaliow. 



This fpecimen grew on an afh tree, in Skircoat, near 

 Halifax, July 24, JySj. 



