CRYPTOGAMIA! FUNGI. Boletus,’ Siem’ lateral 315 
(1) TuBes Warre, 
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Wieet 2s 
. -,. Scheff. 124. . ee one 
Tunes decurtent, white, not perpendicular to the pileus but slop. 
ing so much towards the stem as to be nearly horizontal ; 
_. fear the stem 7 of an inch long, shorter towards the 
., -€dge of the pileus, Pores white, angular, . very irregu- 
Tar in shape, ragged at the end, often appearing sinuous, 
7 especially towards the edge of the pileus, 
Pirzvus white, or buff and edged with white, a fan-shaped ex- 
preity of the stem turning up, and wrinkled at the edge, 
from ; to 4 inches over; often tiled, == 
Stem solid, lateral, pinky white, sometimes only a knob, but 
generally % to 3 inches long, and 1-3d of an inch dia- 
meter. 
The whole plant, is. white, but the whiteness depends on a 
very fine dense cottony substance, which is readily abraded, 
and then discovers a idee abiee, and when more abraded a 
foxy brown. It is much perforated by the stems and leaves of © 
grass, and grows on the ground, but attached to bits of decayed 
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"Red rock plantation, Edgbaston, plentiful. 7 _ Aug. Sept. 
*Box. (Jaca.) Tubes white: pileus chesnut coloured, rugo’sus, 
shining: stem hard, uneven, chesnut. coloured, 
Curt, 224—Bull, 7 and 459-Facq. austr. 169-Batsch, 225. 
Tunes very white, Pores exceedingly small, Tuuns. Jap. t. 
SOc. os on. ge 
Pivevs flat, semi-circular, or more: highly polished; marked 
with concentric grooves ; edge thick, wrinkled, 3 to 8 
inches over. a .. 
Stem lateral, chesnut-coloured, hard, uneven, shining as if var- 
nished, 3 to 5 inches high, | to 2 inches in diameter. 
Sometimes without a stem. Mr. Woopwarp. 
Bol. lucidus. Curt. Bol, obliquatus. Burttarp ; who de. 
scribes his plant as varnished in every part except where the 
pores are, but_has not expressed it so in his figures. Pi/eus ob- 
lique, lateral, purplish brown, wrinkled in circular wavy lines, 
highly varnished, puckered at top, a wave of dirty white at the 
rim. Pores very minute, dirty white. Stem thick, crumpled, 
colour of the pileus, Mr. SrackHousz.  —__ 4 
Stumps of trees, Eversden and Linton Woods, Cambridge- 
shire. [ Ditchingham and Brome. Mr, Woopwarp.—Wool- 
hope, Herefordshire. Mr. SracxHouse.] July—Sept. 
% Box. Tubes. white: pileus brown, lobed, tiled: stem frondo’sus. 
: black at the base, very irregular. jee 
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