TAB. CCCCXVIII. 



AGARICUS BOLETIFORMIS. 



ijjL HIS remarkable Fungus was found in great abundance in 

 Nov. 1812, chiefly on unsquared deals in a Thames Dock, 

 certainly unfit from its aspect for preserving wood, and I 

 presume the wood 'had been unseasonably committed to the 

 water? The Fungus is without stipes or sessile, attached 

 somewhat centrically or by the back, governed by the cir- 

 cumstances of the position of the wood, and even becomes 

 inverted when the wood gets turned up by the tide, as 

 occasionally happens. The lamellee spread from one or 

 more centres, or from a centrical continviing line, often 

 inosculating into labyrinthiform order; there are some pores 

 like a Boletus, generally light or dark brown. The pileus 

 is rather thin fibrous, corrugated or with varied segments of 

 circles like plush, velvet, or tufty hairs, &c. deepest brown 

 towards the centre, and lighter at the edges; sometimes the 

 edge is bordered with nearly white. The inside leathery 

 fibrous, of a fine Ochre or Rhubarb colour. 



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TAB. CCCCXIX. 



BOLETUS soLiDus. 



nTIPES solid, round, thickest at the base, white, partly 

 reticulated with fine thready veining towards the upper part, 

 and becoming finer and browner, with impressions of the 

 pores at the top, whitish inside. Pores rounding from the 

 stipes, or what is called loose, very deep, or thick and 

 massive, rather angulated. Pileus thick, roundly imbossed, 

 tapering at the edge, which is rather involute, somewhat 

 largely undulating, light brown at the top, white within, 

 sometimes changing to light brown the day after gathering, 

 changes red when cut. Gathered in Hainault Forest, Essex, 

 August 25, 1810. 



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TAB. CCCCXX. 



BOLETUS LACTiFLuus, TFilh. 320. var. Scha>ff. 133} 



Stipes irregularly cylindrical, varying at the base, some- 

 what flecked with brown on the lower part, yellowish up- 

 wards, solid. Pores rather irregular, thinly placed and 

 fixed to the stem, yellow or yellowish brown. Pileus broadly 

 embossed, chesnut-brown, extremity incurved, thin, produced 



