154 FUNGI. [Ftstulina, 



specimens, in olderones reddish-grey when bruised, and sometimes black. 

 Tubes white, pulvinate, stained with the yellow-brown sporules, their 

 orifices often ferruginous before the expansion of the pileus, minute, 

 round. Stem 6 inches or more high, attenuated upwards, squarrose 

 with black or orange scales, sometimes marked with coarse raised lines. 

 At first the stem is ovate and the pileus very narrow, even in specimens 

 with the stem 2 inches high and 1 thick. There are frequently traces 

 of a floccose veil. No species can be more variable than the present, 

 some of its forms being amongst the coarsest and most unsightly fungi, 

 while some states of the orange variety are equal in beauty to Agaricus 

 7nuscarius. 



15. B. strobildceus, Scop, (fir-cone Boletus) ; blackish-umber, 

 pileus densely scaly, scales thick squarrose erect, pores rather 

 large angular white. Scop, in A?in. Hist. Nat. IV. p. 148 

 {fide Fries). Fr. El. v. \. p. \27 . — B. squarrosus, Pers. Myc, 

 Eur. V. 1. ?i. 145. t. XIX. — B. strobiliformis, Dicks, fasc. 1. 

 p. 17. t. 2./ 2 B. bovinus, var. 5, With. v. 4. p. 275. 



Woods. August, Bullstrode, Buckinghamshire; LigJitfoot. — Pileus 

 2 inches broad, tesselated or cracked, like the cone of the Scotch 

 Fir. Pores very white. Stem 3 — 4 inches high, thick, solid. The 

 stem is stated by Fries in his specific character to be nearly smooth. 

 Persoon describes his species as sulcate, especially above, and furnished 

 with a downy veil. The stem in Dickson's figure is rough with narrow 

 erect scales. This curious and rare species has been sent to Dr. 

 Hooker from Canada. 



16. B. cyanescens^ Bull, (ichite- seeded Boletus) ; pileus com- 

 pact subtomentose, tubes free round equal, stem stuffed even 

 ventricose. Bull. t. 369. Sihth. Fl. Ox. p. 376. With. v. 4. 

 p. 272. RoqueSy Hist, dcs Champ, pi. 8. / 1, 2. 



Woody places. Sept. Magdalen College Walks, Oxford. Sibthorpe. 

 — " Pileus 2 — 5 inches broad, rigid, pale, straw coloured, subfuliginons, 

 the margin acute. Flesh white, when broken changing instantly to the 

 most beautiful azure blue and when squeezed distilling a blue juice. 

 Tubes short, when young scarce a line long, white or lemon-coloured. 

 Stem distinct from the pileus, the apex contracted, brittle, never reti- 

 culated, but villoso-pruinose. Sporules white." Fr. I. c. 



8. FisTULfNA. Bull. Fistulina. 



Hymenium formed of a distinct substance, but concrete with 

 the fibres of the pileus. Tubes at first wart-like, somewhat 

 remote, closed, radiato-fimbriate, at length approximate, elon- 

 gated, open. — Named from the fistulous nature of the Hymenium, 



1. F. hepdtica, With. (Juicy Fistulijia) ; fleshy but juicy- 

 rootless, pileus undivided. With. v. 4. p. 270. Fr. Syst. Myc, 

 V. 1. p. 395. Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. t. 270. Fr. El. v, 1. 



p. 128 Fistulina buglossoides. Bull. 1.14, 464, 497. — Boletus 



hepaticus, Schceff. t. 116—120. Bolt. t. 79. Sow. t 58. * Pers. 

 Syn. p. 549. Part. Midi. Fl. v. 2 ^' 3. n. 1002. Tratt. Essb, 

 Schw. t. V, (Est. Schw. t. 12. n. 23. — Hypodrys hepaticics, Pers, 



