CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Boletus. Stem central. 
(1) Tuges Wuire, 
Pizevs flattish, but irregular, the edge c in and depressed 
in places, cracking, from 3 to 6 inches over. Flesh not 
1-10th of an inch in thickness. When the pileus is 
quite central on the stem, it hangs flapping down on 
every side. . 
Stem dark brown above, paler below, tough, thickening up- 
wards, 2 inches long, } to 1 inch diameter. The stem 
varies in every degree of eccentricity, from perfectly 
central, to perfectly lateral, in which last state it is well 
_ figured, though from small plants, in 
ut Bolt. 168. 
Mr. Bolton observes the change it undergoes when very 
old, and Mr. Bulliard has a figure which pretty well represents 
it in that state, though I am aware it is an old plant of a diffe. 
rent species. 
: Bull. 360. . 
But in their very old and woody state these plants lose 
their distinguishing characters. |. * 
Gathered in all the above different states at the foot of some 
paling in the old Worcester road facing.the cottage by the Park 
Gate, Edgbaston. June. 
Bor. Tubes white : pileus bay; flat, thin: stem brown- 
ish, 
Jacq. mise. 1.12. 
Tuszs white, very short, dks 
Piteus tawny bay, flat, thin, leather-like; about 1 inch dia. 
meter. : 
Stem pale or reddish brown, thick as a crow quill and about + 
inch long. : 
First observed in this island by Mr. Dickson, growing on 
Totten sticks, Fasc. iii. p. 21. 
Bot. (Buiy.) Tubes whitish : pileus red orange: stem 
whitish, rough, ioe 
Bull. 236 and 489. f. 2. R. 8. 
Tupgs not decurrent, brownish white, 1-3d of an inch long, 
readily separating from the pileus. Pores brown white, 
circular or angular. . pe ee 
Pireus convex, full orange red, viscid, 4 to 6 inches over, and 
sometimes much larger; thin at the edge, and without 
tubes for about 1-10th of an inch. Flesh yellowish 
: white, not changing. : i 
Stem whitish, or pale val white, rough with’ coloured 
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phalus. 
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imples like the skin of a goose, thickest downwards, 
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Von. IV. : : 
