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nummula’- 
rus. 
ni’gripes. 
elephanti’- 
nus, 
CRYPTOGAMIA: FUNGI. Boletus. Siem central, 
(3) Tuses Burr, 
" (3) Tubes buff. 
Bou. (Buix.) Tubes very short, buff colour: pileus co- 
Jour of horn, convex, dimpled: stem colour of 
horn, black at the base. 
3 ‘Bull. 124. : oe 
uses loose from the stem, buff, very short.’ Pores angular; 
"general surface underneath the pileus concave. 
Pitevs. the colour of brown horn, with a black circle at the 
edge, gently convex, but hollowed in the centre; tough 
like leather, smooth, very thin, from { to 1} inch dia- 
meter. Soren * 
STEM lone of brown horn, black at the base, smooth, 2 inches 
high, thick as a goose quill, — 
Mr. Bulliard figures the stem as more or less eccentric, and 
says ee are always so, but the specimen from which the pre- 
ceding description was taken, and others which I have. seen 
since, are exceptions to.this observation. Mr. Dickson ob- 
serves that it is chiefly found on slender rotten branches of hazle, 
He quotes the fig. of Bulliard, cited above, and in his second 
fasc. refers Bolt. 83, to this plant, but I think Bolton’s is a dif. 
ferent, species. : Br: es 
On a piece of rotten stick by the tail of the pool in Edg- 
aston Park, POONA Marcss 1791: 
Bot. Pores ochrey red; tubes decurrent: pileus whitish: 
stem black. 2 pele 3h: \oSen 
Tuses decurrent, very short. Pores minute brown buff or 
' ochrey colour. 
Prrevs whitish, flattish, a little spotted, the size of a sixpences 
the edge thin and slightly turned down. 
Stem black at the bottom, about 1 inch high; thick as a crow ~ 
quill. : 
Found by Mr, Stackhouse growing on the stump of an ash 
cut off and rotting, at Pendarvis, Cornwall, ; 
(4) Tues yellow, > 
Bou. Tubes: yellow, short: pileus. dead white, convex, 
but very irregular: stem yellow, thick and short. 
~ (Scheff. 134 and 135, nearly resemble it, except in colour.) 
Tunes yellow, the longest not more than 1-3d of an inch, ad- 
<= hering firmly tc the pileus. Pores very small, circular. 
Prievs dead white, convex, but vefy irregular in shape, from 2 
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