.^Boletus.] ruNGi. 149 



dirty-yellow or brownish slime which gradually disappears. Fks/i white, 

 very slightly tinged with yellow, not changeable. Tubes adnate or 

 subdecurrent, compound, each consisting of two or three cells ; their 

 orifices angular, at first nearly white with a tinge of yellcw, at length 

 brownish from the sporules. Ste7n 2 inches or more high, i — § of an 

 inch thick, nearly equal, reticulated above the ring and frequently much 

 scrobiculated below, dirty-white like the pileus, stained with the sporules, 

 somewhat downy at the base. Sporules oblong, brownish clay-coloured. 



At. B, granuldtuSy L. (milk?/ Boletus) ; pileus covered with 

 brown slime which gradually disappears, tubes adnate rather 

 large subsimple yellow, stem scabrous. Linn. Sp. v. 2. p, 

 1647. Fr. Sf/st. 3If/c. V. I. p. 387, — B.Jlavo-rufus, aureus, fer- 

 ruyincus, Schoeff. t. 123, 115, 126.— jB. lactifmis, With. v. 4. 

 p. 280. Sow. t. 420. — B. circi?ians, Pers. Syn. p. 505. Nees^ 

 Syst.f. 205 {coined from Sc/icsff. t. 123.). 



Fir plantations. Aug — Sept. Edgbaston, Withering. Aimer, Dor- 

 set. ; JRev. M. J. Berhelei/. — Greganous, ca^spitose. Pileus 2 inches 

 or more broad, hemispherical, at first covered with a thick rufous 

 brown slime ; afterwards dirty rufous or yellowish ; Jlesh thick, white 

 or yellowish, not changeable ; margin at first inflexed and downy. Pores 

 at first whitish, then lenion-coloured, compound, the margin distilling a 

 pale watery milk, which when dried, gives them a granulated appearance, 

 at length dirty-yellow, adnate. Sporules ochraceo-ferruginous. Stem 

 1 inch or more high, ^ an inch thick, generally short, but variable in 

 this respect, obtuse at the base, sending many roots into the soil, more 

 watery than the pileus, pale yellow above, white below, minutely toinen- 

 tose and granulated, at first covered with milky drops. Eatable, ac- 

 cording to Persoon. Withering says that its llavour is like that of 

 Af/aricus campcstris. B. circinans of Roques is certainly a different 

 species, consequently his account does not invalidate the report of 

 Persoon. 



b.B.hovinuSy L. (Cow Boletus) ; pileus glutinous reddish- 

 buft", tubes adnate compound at first greyish-yellow then fer- 

 ruginous, stem even. Linn. Suec. 1246. Fr. St/at. j}///c. r. 1. 

 p. 388. Grcv. Fl. Fd. p. 403. Klotzsch, Fung. Girm. exs. n, 

 37.— B. grcgarius, Fl. Dan. t. 1018. With. v. A. p. 278. 



Heathy fir-woods. Sept. Pendarvis, Cornwall. Mr. Stachhouse. 

 East Morden, Dorset, llcv. M. J. lierheley. Very common in sub- 

 alpine parts of Scotland. Br. Greville. — Gregarious, fascicidatc. 

 Pilrus 1 — 2A inches broad, VNhen young hemis|)licrical, the margin white 

 and tomentose, the disc and loj) of the stem purj)li.^h, the base rhubarb 

 coloured ; when full grow n, convex, expandeii, the margin still turned 

 in, very glutinous, dull orange yellow or deep buff, floli tinged with the 

 colour of the [)ileus, not changeable. Tuhts resembling the pores of 

 jMcrulius Idchrymaiis, very shallow (|; of an inch) coinj)ound, dirty 

 yellow, not easily separating from the pileus. Stem 2 — .*} iiithes liiuh, 

 \ — \ of an inch thick, snbtomentosc, not diffused gradually but rather 

 aliruptly, into the pileus of the same colour with it, but strcakeil with 

 watery lines, attenuated below or suhecpiai. In very young specimens 

 the stem is bulbous. Sj>orults elli|)tic, yellow (jiale ochre, iV.). Smell 

 resembling that \j( Aijuricus Ortadts, but strong. A very elegant and 



