316 - CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI.» Boletus; Sten ‘hci 
(1). Tuses Wuire. 
Fil, dan. 952-Schaeff. 128.129-Bolt. 76— Barr. 1268. 
Tusrs decurrent, white, about 1- 10th of an inch long. Pores. 
very small, very numerous, circular, or angular, some- 
_ times confluent. 
Prievs pale yellowish brown to deeper cinnamon, leathery, 
‘ waved, lobed, sometimes jagged, lobes tiled one over 
-- “another, 2 inches.wide and rather more in length. 
StEM ve irregular and misshapen, expanding so as to form the 
ileus, about an inch high, or more, sometimes almost co- 
“vered with pores, never central, black at the base, seve- 
ral. together in clusters, near an inch broad, Re.yan. 
Dicks, 
T saw one at Brome growing at the bottom of an old tree, 
‘ which measured nearly 2 feet across, and the tiled lobes next 
to the tree more. than 6 inches deep. Mr. Woopw. 
betuli’ nus. Bor. Tubes j pure white, very short ; pileus pinky brown, 
dge curled in: stem black, 
Bolt, 159-(not Bol. betulinus, Bull, 312. ) 
Tunes very white and short, from 1-10th to 1-50th of an inch 
long. Pores very minute ; general surface concave. _ 
Pitevus smooth, oblong, convex, “carled'in at the edge, nase 
brown, thin, flexible, often divided into tongut? -shaped 
_ lobes. Flesh white, 2 of an inch thick, very thin at 
>» the, sees 
Srem lateral, black, 1 to 2 inches long, % inch diameter. 
Whole plant leathery, tough, 2 to 4 inches wide, and 3 to 8 
inches long: looks when growing, and smells like the Ag. os- 
treatus. The tubes do not separate’ from the pileus except in 
the older plants; in the young ones I have found it next to 
impossible to detach them. | 
On the stump of an ash tree ; 1 Eee May. 
exista’tus, Bot, Tubes dirty or ochrey white : ileus golden yellow ; 
_ variously shaped, jagged, c ; stem brown. 
7 Scheff.316, is | 
Tuses she; not separating: pores irregular. 
Pireus very irregular, mostly hand-shaped and lobed, but jag- 
: ged, twisted and curled. 
Soo woody, distorted, irregular, thick, porous. © 
_ First observed as a British species by Mr. Dickson, grow- 
tog Yer erigkee of trees ; he tells us it sometimes attains the 
height of 2 feet. Dicks, fasc. iii. 21.- : 
squamo’sus.Bor. Tubes yellow white ; pores large. angular: ileds. 
pale butf, — wa ct oe 
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