CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Boletus.  Stemless. 
2 (5) Tupes YELLOW. ~ 
ina few hours after the plant is gathered. ‘The aurora co- 
lour appears on the yellow parts of the pileus wherever the 
surface is abraded. Some specimens grow double, ‘one over an- 
other, from the same root. sea 
Z In the cleft of a large cherry tree at Edgbaston, where a si- 
milar one was gathered the preceding year, so that it appears to 
be an annual. 28th June. Woo Herefordshire, and-in a 
yew tree near Kidderminster. Mr. Stacknouse. © 
jadi 2. Pileus pale yellow or buff, thick, tough, elastic, 
t Ve 
Bolt. 75—Battar. 34. B-Scheff. 132-ib. 131, its young pulpy 
state. : j 
Bol. coriaceus. Huds. Bol. tenax. Lightfoot. In hollows 
on the trunks of trees. May—Sept. 
Var. 3. Pileus white. si 
Tuses yellow, not 1-20th of an inchin length. Pores yellow, 
irregular. : : 
Pinaus white, covered with a very fine kind of woolly knap ; 
marked with 3 or 4. concentric depressed lines or fur- 
39s 
rows; 4 or 5 inches over: thin and without tubes at - 
the edge. es 
- On an oak post, at Soho, about a foot from the ground. 
. Aug. 
Bot. Tubes brown yellow: pores pale brown: pileus 
very irregular m shape, covered with a dense pile 
of a silvery grey colour, «9 7 Digat 
Tusss bright gold colour, changing to brown yellow : 3 an inch 
long. Pores irregular in size, angular, light greyish 
brown, apparently woolly ; largest towards the edge of 
the pileus and oblong. = 
’ Prievs a very large misshapen mass, covered with a stiff plushy 
pile consisting of upright hairs 4 of an inch high. Co. 
lour silvery grey, or greenish, changing to brown 
orange, and at length to black. Sometimes 12 inches 
by 7, and tiled one over another ; the surface rather like 
a sponge, porous and cavernous: the colour varying 
from grey to green, from red brown to orange brown. 
Flesh several inches thick, chocolate coloured, with a 
tich red tinge, juicy. In the younger state of the plant 
the pile on the pileus consists of all colours from pale yel- 
low to deep brown orange, and when magnified appears 
veluti/nus, 
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composed of stars radiating from a centre. It is very - 
beautiful seen through an eye-glass, but its beawy is 
soon destroyed on account of its tender juicy state, Mvesb 
tough, fibrous, brown yellow. a 
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