TAB. CXXXIV- 



BOLETUS LuciDUs. Curt. F.L. 224. 



RUGOsus. y^^c. 169. fVM. 321. 



OBLiQUATUs. Bti//. Fl 459. cd. PI. a. b. c. 



1 HIS has fome affinity to the laft, is of a fibrous tex- 

 ture, and fometimes fellile, but fofter, and the gene- 

 rally richly lacquered appearance of the pileus and 

 Item makes it confpicuous. The \arniih feems a colour- 

 ed gum, limilar to what often iffues in the autumn from 

 the hornbeam, of a dark brown or black, refembling 

 bitumen. I have moftly found it on the hornbeam, 

 or Carpinus betulus Linn. It is feldom found in the 

 foft ftate, when the part growing is yellow or whitifli, 

 and very tender, when it recedes from the leaft touch, 

 fo that grafs, &c. may eafily be furrounded by it, and 

 feem to grow through it. I have found it two or three 

 times fo on Hainault Foreft, Effex, &;c. Mr. Walford, oi 

 Birdbrook, Effex, favoured me with the fpecimen here 

 figured, from his plantation. 



T A B. CXXXV. 

 BOLETUS suLPHUREUs. Bull. 429. With. 3 ed. 331. 



On walnut, oak, and willow trees, 8cc. after rain, in 

 fpring, fummer, and autumn. It is of quick growth, 

 and fometimes forms an imbricated mofs in a few days 

 of three or more feet in circumference. This eafily 

 dries, when it becomes friable, and is readily reduced to 

 a powder for tinder, for w^hich it is occafionally ufed in 

 fome places upon the Continent. When frefli, it is 

 foft and tender, and, if laid with the pileus downwards, 

 will produce pores like the under fide ; thofe protube- 

 rances that are fheltered under the imbrications are 

 commonly covered with pores. In very fliady places 

 it will often become ramofe, and be altogether covered 

 with pores, whence Bull. B. ramofus, pi. 418. 



