148 FUNGI. [Boletus, 



With. V. 4. p. 278. Sow. t 265. — B. annulatuSf NeeSy Syst, 

 f. 204 (copied from Scliceff.). 



Fir plantations, &c. Extremely common. — Pileus 3 — 4 inches broad, 

 dingy yellow, convex, covered at first with thick brown gluten, which 

 is soon washed off, but the pileus remains slightly viscid and clothed 

 with very minute matted silkiness. Flesh at first firm, whitish not 

 changing. T/z^es adnate, dull yellow, nearly simple, their orifices round 

 or slightly waved; sporules ochraceo-ferruginous. Stem, 4 inches or 

 more high, | an inch thick, straight or flexuous, at first white, but soon 

 sordid; hoary beneath the white persistent ring, glandular above; 

 sometimes the whole surface is glandular. I have not quoted Bulliard*s 

 figures, as they do not agree with any specimens I have met with. 

 Schceffer seems to have had both this and the following species in view, 

 the section apparently belonging to B. Grevillei. 



2. B. Grevillei^ Kl. {bright yellow Boletus) ; pileus compact 

 bright yellow clothed with brown gluten which gradually dis- 

 appears, tubes decurrent of a golden sulphur, stem firm fur- 

 nished with a ring reticulated above. Klotzsch MSS. <^- Linncea, 

 vii. 198. Fr. hid. Alph. p. 59.— B. amiulariiis, Bolt, t 169 4- 



84 (smaller fig.). — B. fiavus^ With. v. 4. p. 280 B. luteits, 



Grev. Sc. Crypt. Fl. t. 183. 



Woods, heaths, &c. May — Oct. Common. — " Pileiis 2 — 5 inches 

 broad, compact, in moist shady places glutinous and bright yellow, in 

 exposed situations dry and brown. (Flesh pale yellow, not changing.) 

 Tubes unequal, of a golden sulphur, wavy ; sometimes with their orifices 

 ruddy. Ring dirty-yellow, membranaceous. Stem 2 — 3 inches high, 

 6 — 9 lines thick, yellow spotted with purple, thickened at the base, 

 reticulated above the ring." Kl. MSS. I copy the above description 

 from a MS. of M. Klotzsch, in preference to my own notes or Dr. 

 Greville's description, as he appears to be the first who of late has 

 rightly understood the species, though it is certainly Withering's B. 

 fiavuSy which name it ought properly to have borne. It is easily known 

 by its firm bright ^^\o\\ pileus^ whose flesh is also yellow, by its golden 

 sulphur-coloured decurrent tubes, and by the portion of the stem above 

 the ring being reticulated and not glandular. By these notes I had 

 myself purposed to distinguish it, and, if I mistake not, by the much 

 paler almost clay coloured sporules ; but on this point I speak cautiously, 

 as I have only the sporules of B., Grevillei before me, and it is always 

 hazardous to trust to descriptions of colour. It does not appear to be 

 B. cortinatuSy Pers. as Klotzsch supposes, since he states the flesh of 

 that to be white. 



3. B. laricinuSy Berk. {Larch Boletus) ; pileus dirty- white 

 with livid stains clothed with dirty yellow slime which gradually 

 disappears subsquamose, tubes adnate subdecurrent compound, 

 at first nearly white, stem furnished with a ring, reticulated 

 above. 



Under or near Larches. Sept. Stibbington, Hunts. Laxton, Norths. 

 Rev. M. J. Berkeley. — Pileus 2 — 3 inches broad, dirty-white with 

 hvid stains and sometimes adpressed dirty-yellow fascicles of filaments, 

 the remains of the slimy ring ; often deeply scrobiculate ; covered with 



