134 BRITISH FUNGI. 



Boletus radicans. Fr. 



Pileus pulvinate, when dry subtonientose, olivaceous-cinereous 

 then ash colour, margin thin, involute, stem attenuated, rooting, 

 even, yellow, flocculose with a reddish powder, darker where touched, 

 tubes adnate, broad, unequal, lemon yellow. — Fries, Epicr., ^>.415. 

 Smith, Journ. Bot., 1873,2?. 337. Fers. Syn., 507. Fries, Sys. 

 Myc, f., 390. Krombh., t. 48,/. 1-6. 



In woods. Staplehurst, Epping, &c. 



Boletus pachypus. Fries. (Handbook, No. 718.) var. amaxus. Fr. 



Pileus becoming plane, even, growing pallid and whitish, stem 

 nearly equal, scarcely reticulated, white. — Fries, Epicr., p. 417. 

 B. cyanescens, Cooke in Journ. Bot., vol. 3., t. 30. B. Elephantinus, 

 Hussey, Illus. 



In grassy places. 



Boletus cyanescens. Bull. 



Pileus convexo-expanded, closely tomentose or floccose-scaly, 

 opaque tan coloured, beeoming brownish, flesh compact, white, 

 dark blue when broken ; stem stuffed with a spongy pith, then 

 hollow, ventricose, villoso-pruinose, of the same colour, constricted 

 above, even, white ; tubes free, minute, round, white, then yellow. 

 —Bull, t. 369. B. $ Br. Ami. N. H., 1363.* Saund. $ Sm. 

 Illus., t. 47. Barla., t. 37, /. 1-7. Fries, Epicr., 426. 



Meadows and woods. East Budleigh. 



The floccose coating which encloses the whole plant when 

 young is very curious. The degree in which the flesh becomes 

 blue is variable. 



Folyporus (Merisma) frondosus. Fr. 



Very much branched, between fibrous and fleshy, rather tough ; 

 pileoli very numerous, dimidiate, rugose, lobed, intricately re- 

 curved, dingy grey, stems concrescent, pores small, acute, white. — 

 Fries, Sys. Myc. 355. Fr. Epic. p. 446. Bostk. t. 18. FL 

 Dan. t. 952. B. & Br. Ann. N. H. 1364. 



In woods at base of trunks. Berkshire, Oct. [Esculent.] 



Folyporus (Anodexmei) mollis. Fr. 



Pileus between fleshy and fibrous, soft, effuso-reflexed, somewhat 

 triangular, acute, rugose, flesh coloured ; pores unequal, elongated, 

 flexuous, soft, white, when touched spotted with red. — Fries,. Sys. 

 Myc. 360. Fr. Epic. 454. B. £ Br. Ann. N. H., 1365. 



On rotten pine wood. Near Slough. 



Folyporus (Flacodermei) carneus. Fr. 



Pileus woody, thin, hard, effuso-reflexed, rugose, smooth, not 

 zoned, flesh-coloured, internally the same, pores minute, rounded, 

 decurrent at the base. — Nees Nova, Act. Nat. Cur., xiii. t. 3. 

 Fries, Epicr., p. 471. B. £ Br. Ann. N. H. 1366. 



On an old stump. Welshpool, Nov. 



Daedalea mollis. Sommf. 



Resupinate, determinate, submembranaceous, pallid, at length 



