HYMENOMYCETES. 



2 B. ELEGANS. var. FLAvus. Fries Ep. 



'_' Known by its firm, bright yellow j^ileus, the flesh of which 

 IS also yellow, by its golden sulphur coloured decurrent tubes, 

 and by the portion of the stem above the ring being reticulated 

 and not glandular." B. Grevilld. E. F. Woods and planta- 

 tions. Pex-hill. Stourton. Knowsley. 



3 B. BOVINU.S. L. 2 — 3. 1 — 3. |. 



Pileus convex, glutinous, pale reddish buff; flesh whitish, un- 

 changeable ; tubes shallow, slightly decurrent ; stem even, 

 pale. In abundance in the fir plantations at Stourton and 

 Bidston. 



4 B. PiPERATus. Biill. 2 — 3. 1 — 3. \. 



Pileus at length nearly plane, viscid, yellowish ; flesh yellow, 

 unchangeable ; tubes large, angular ; stem yellow. In a wood 

 on Windle moss. 



5 B. VAPJEGATDS. Swai'tz. 2 — 3. 3 — 4. i— |. 



Pileais fasciculato-pilose, dull yellow ; tubes narrow, adnate, 

 buff yellow. Fries describes them as ferruginous ; in the E.F. 

 they are said to be dull yellow ; I have not seen them ferru- 

 ginous. Flesh and tubes, when broken, becoming bluish. 

 Fu- i^lantations, Stourton. 



B. SUBTOMENTOSUS. L. 2 — 4. 2 — 4. I — |. 



Pileus slightly convex or uneven, covered with a dull olive 

 tomentose epidermis, cracking into areolas ; interstices yellow 

 or whitish ; tubes rather large, sub-fusiform, yellow ; stem 

 scabrous, curved, often deep crimson red below, towards the 

 apex yellow ; flesh changing slightly and not very rapidly to 

 a bluish tint. Common under hedges, and on woody banks. 



7. B. eHRYSENTERON. Bull. 



Differing from the preceding species principally in the smoother 

 stem, and in the cuticle of the pileus, which is red. Under 

 trees, Rainhill. Bold. 



8 B. LURiDOs. Schceff. 2 — 4. 3—5. 1— H. 



Pileus sub-tomentose, olivaceous umber ; flesh yellowish, 

 changing rapidly to blue ; tubes nearly free, yellow ; orifices 

 crimson-red, at length orange-red ; stem ventricose, reticulated 

 or streaked with red ; very poisonous. Under beech trees, 

 Rainhill. Boletus Satanas has probably occurred in the same 

 locality ; my notes arc deficient, and only mention a cream- 

 coloured variety of B. Luninus. 



y B. EDULis. Bull. 2—4. 3—0. 1—2. 



Pileus at first pulvinatc, chocolate brown ; pores half free, 

 whitish, becoming yellow ; stem strong, pale, reticulated ; 

 Sporules large, greenish, ochre, E.F. Under beech trees, 

 Rainhill ; near Warrington. In Cheshire, not unconnaon. 



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