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bovi’nus, 
CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Boletus. Stem central. 
(2) TuBes Brown. 
either rounded or pointed at the base; spongy within, 2 
to 32 inches high, £ to 1 inch or more in diameter. 
_ Fir plantations at Barr, Staffordshire. June. 
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_..* (9) Tues brown. 3 
Bou. (Luyn.) Tubes pale yellowish brown, unequal in 
' length: pileus brown or olive, clammy : stem thick 
pale brown with rusty stains. 
Boletus stipitatus, pileo glabro pulvinato marginato, poris 
compositis acutis, porulis angulatis brevioribus. Linn. 
Bull. 60.- 
Tunes pale yellowish brown, not touching the stem, the longest 
£toZinch long. Pores brown white, becoming more 
brown, and red brown with age. . 
Pixevs convex, thin at the edge, dark brown to olive, or tawny 
brown, viscid; 3 to inches over. Flesh) very thick, 
_ spongy, white, not changing colour. 
Stem dirty white with reddish stains, white in the flesh, but 
sometimes with a reddish tinge, 3 to 7 inches high, and 
2 to 14 inch diameter, : | 
This species, though not uncommon, has been the occasion 
of great confusion, partly because it had never been well figured” 
before the 60th plate of M. Bulliard appeared, and partly from. 
the Linnzan character holding forth the inequality of the pores 
as its most prominent feature. ‘It is true, the pores appear very 
much like a piece of sponge, both in colour and shapes and 
admit of great variety in size and figure, especially as we find 
sets of tubes together, opening with small pores, surrounded by 
other longer tubes, which Linnzus calls compound pores. ‘This 
is a striking circumstance, but as it likewise exists in several 
other of the larger Boleti in their fally expanded state, instead 
of aiding the discrimination it has promoted the confusion © 
the species. Not less than ten of the plates of Schaffer have 
been first and last given to this plant, though none of them 1é- 
present it except 103, and 104, which are varieties, and 134, 
and 135, which may also be varieties, but it does not appeat ” 
that they are known as British plants. ee 
Scheff. 105, is the B. luteus, with bright yellow tubes and 
pores, and a crimson and yellow stem. cig: 
107, has green yellow tubes and crimson pores, and 
is B. rubiolarius, Sasi ial peoyes 
¥ 108, is a variety of the Bs luteus, © * 
~s———~ 112, has green yellow tubes and pores, with an 
_ Orange pileus. ~ gee aes ; 
~ ———— 150, has lemon coloured tubes and: pores, res, adotted 
" brick-red pileus, and a yellow and pinky stem. __ 
