TAB. CLXXIV. 



AGARICUS MOLLI0SCULUS. 



VJTROWS in damp places on ver}'^ rotten wood. 

 Thefe fpecimens were found in a grove under poplar- 

 trees in Lambeth-marfli, Auguft 27th, 1795. I have 

 feen it fince there, and in other places, llridly agree- 

 ing with what are here delineated. 



TAB. CLXXV. 



BOLETUS scABER. Bull. t. 489, &: 132, 'var. 

 BOLETUS BOViNUS. Schcvff'. tab. 10^.} 



V ERY freqvient in woods, &c. It varies much in 

 fize and length of ftipes, but lefs in the colour and ge- 

 neral fhape of the pileus and gills ; the pileus has 

 fomething of a dull leathery appearance, and is of a 

 dirty greyifli crimfon. Its fliape is hemifphaerical, 

 fomewhat flattened. The pores are a dirty or greyifh 

 green, fometimcs nearly white; their tubes veiy fliort 

 towards the ftipes, longer in the middle, and fliorten- 

 ing again at the edge of the pileus ; their diameter al- 

 ways fmall, but they feem when magnified regularly 

 fliaped. This I am told is a favourite food among 

 the Ruffians and Poles, who have many ways of 

 cooking and pickling it. Mr. Frazier was fo kind as 

 to bring me fome from thence pickled, very rich in 

 fpices. Infe6ts foon breed in this fungus. 



