320 _ CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Boletus. Stemless, 
(1) Tuszes WHITE. — 
sweet smelling, pale brown. — Pores oblong, resembling a honey 
comb in structure. Mr. SrackHouse. bigot 
- Bol, albus. Huvsoyn. On willow trees, very common. 
Siem pT, May—Oct. 
_ Var. 1. Pileus white, downy, scolloped and almost curled at 
the edge. | 
= = Bolt. 78. 
Tuses white, turning toa dirty red when cut or bruised ; nearly 
1-10th of an inch long. Pores very itregular in shape 
and size. a" 
Piievs white, downy, when this is rubbed off, red brown: 7 
inches long, 3 inches broad, thin-at the edge, and wav- 
ed, 14 inch thick at the base. 2° : 
Hedge banks, Edgbaston, fixed to half rotten wood. July. 
‘The specimens I have seen were larger than figured and de- 
scribed by Bolton; the margins were lobed and waved, but 
not with so much elegance. Mr. Bolton’s fig. being taken from 
a small plant, it might grow with more regularity. Mr, 
Woopw. : | 
Ditchingham near Bungay, and at Diss, Norfolk. Woopw. 
suave’olens, Bot. (Linn.) Tubes very long, white changing to 
tawny: pileus smooth, semi-circular, white or 
‘tawny: flesh yellow brown. Burt. 
Bol. acaulis, superne levis, salicinus. Linw. 
Ball. 310—Walc. n. 4. B. suberosus. 
Tuses at first whitish, changing to straw colour, and then to 
tawny, especially at the ends, = an inch long or more in 
large specimens, Pores irregular. 
Pinevs at first white, tawny, brownish and marked with con- 
centric circles as it grows old. Flesh white or yellow- 
ish, compact, like cork. Diameter from 2 to 5 inches 
or more. Its odour penetrating and agreeable, but it 
loses this with age, and even in the younger plants when 
thin it is not always perceptible. Butiiarp. 
On the trunks of willow trees, in Autumn, not uncommon 5 
continuing about a year. 
Sometimes growing tiled one above another to a very large ~ 
size. Pileus frequently tinged with orange. The B. albus of 
Hudson is thicker at the base and more regular in its Se 
Mr. Woopwarp. In its young state the whole outside of the 
