go -* CRYPTOGAMIA; FUNGI. Boletus;. Stemless. 
_(4) Tuszs YELLow,. 
Found near the former, of which it may be only a variety. 
Mr. SracxHouse. ; 
abieti‘nus, Box. Pores angular, purplish changing to brown: pileus 
gently convex, wrinkled, woolly, greyish, whiter at 
the edge. 
Dicks. fase. iii. 9. 9. 
Stemless, generally tiled one upon another. Pileus thin, 
convex but flat towards the edge, wrinkled and knotted, cot- 
tony, greyish paler towards the edge which is thin, and either 
scolloped or entire. Zones narrow, impressed. Pores angular, 
with 1 or 2 prominent teeth. Dickson. 
On decaying trunks of larch trees. 
his’pidus. Bor, (Butt.) Tubes yellow red, fringed : pileus bright 
red brown, rough with bristly hairs. 
bs Bull, 210. | 
Blood red when young, in middle age the pileus purplish 
brick red, the pores blackish tawny : in old age black. The 
a is stemless, soft, leathery, very fleshy, 4 inches wide. 
ULL. : 
= Chiefly on old oaks. Specimen sent me by Mr. Stack- 
ouse. : yee : : 
__ It is possible that this and the Bol. velutinus may not be 
specifically different. 
(4) Tunes yellow. = 2 
gulphu’re- Bot. (Buty.) Tubes and pores sulphur colour: pileus 
us. bright aurora, streaked. 
Bull, 429. 
Sometimes grows very much tiled, the lobes 40 or more; the 
whole mass half a yard in length anda foot or more in breadth. 
In its first state it is soft like a custard. Mr, SrackHouse. : 
' ‘Tunes yellow, not longer than 1-10th of an inch. Pores very 
minute, irregular in shape. oe 
'.  Prigus nearly semi-circular, 6 inches radius, in shape like the 
under shell of a very large oyster inverted, colour bright 
aurora, streaked; thin edge bordered with yellow, for 
about 1-10th of an inch in breadth. Fiesh thin, soft, 
: _. white, sometimes stained red near the upper surface, but 
ee never yellow. Svem next to none, but a thick mass neat” 
2 inches in diameter fixes the plant tothetree, 
This is an extremely beautiful plant, and admirably depicted 
by M. Rulliard, ‘The fine sulphur yellow of the pores fires off 
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