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_CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Boletus. Stemiess. 
(1) Tupes Wuire. pict 2, 
also represent the Bol. polyporus in its old and woody 
states . 
Tonzs decurrent, the longest near } z of an inch, Pont buff CO- 
~ Your, small, but not all of the same size. 
Pisin dee buff to chesnut colour, firm and hard to cut, like a 
» hollowed near the insertion of the stem, thin and 
saa or curled at the edge, 2 to 4 inches over. 
Stim lateral, sometimes approaching to central, tough, white, 
conical, gradually losing itself into the pilens and becom. 
ing covered by the pores, so that it is difficult to decide 
its length, which however may be considered as near an 
“inch in the larger specimens, and 1-4th to 3-8ths dia- 
_meter. The plant is much crowded in its growth, so 
that the substance of one “often unites with the substance 
of those adjoining it. 
Bol. elegans. Bull. 40. Stump oP an ae tree, rick yard, 
‘ it 
* lotecniie,. 
* Bot: (Bott.) Tubes yellow, very short: pileus dead 
yellow, thin, smooth : stem yellow, 
‘Balt. 83-Battar. 34. AFI. dan. 1075. 1, is very like the 
plant, but the pores are whites possibly an omission in 
the colouring. 
_, Tunes about a line inlength. Pores circular, so minute as not 
to be discernible by the naked eye. 
Piteus yellow, smooth, flat, very thin, leather-like, 1 to 2. inches 
3 in diameter. 
Tem lateral, dull yellow gradually spreading out at its top so 
as to form the pileus, £ to near 1. fick long, 3 inch dia- 
a meter. Root hard, black. Botton. _ : 
- On the trunk of a fallen willow. ~ _ Aug, 
(1) Tupgs white. 
subero’sus. Box, (Lixy.) Tubes white, pointed: pores irregular : 
pileus white, convex, smooth, thin. 
Bolt. 162—Bull. 482. F. 
ig acaulis, pulvinatus, albus, levis, poris acutis difformi- 
=*, 
Snowy white; soft as sponge. Liny, —— 
 -Pileus arched, thin, wrinkled, sometimes ee a with zones, 
grey white, very watery when young. BuLiiarv.—Tubes of 
unequal lengths, Pileus white, downy when young, smooth 
wc old, but made uneven by. rising bunches, Borrox.—This 
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