34 NEW OR RARE HYMENOMYCETOUS FUNGI 
appears to have been quite overlooked by English botanists, 1 have 
found several times. The first place in which I gathered it was 
Gamston Wood, near Retford, Nottinghamshire, on July 20th, 1865; 
it was most abundant, and grew principally under oaks. During the 
same autumn, and also on September 15th, 1866, I found it sparingly 
under oaks in Bishop’s Wood, Hampstead ; and on October 10th, 1867, 
I had three specimens of the same species sent on to me from Devon- 
shire ; it therefore appears to be widely spread. When I first found it 
(having no botanical books with me) I imagined it to be a variety of 
either B. edulis, Bull, or B. subtomentosus, L., for either of which it 
might, at a first Susa be mistaken; its neat and wholesome aspect 
and delicious and enticing fragrance invited me to cook it. I found 
its taste delicate, sweet, and delicious. It often grows in large con- 
fluent bundles, unlike any other British Boletus. The pileus is bronze- 
brown, pulvinate, and scabrous, the /uóes minute and of a beautiful. 
shade of subdued yellow-green; the stem, which is thickened down- 
wards, is brown and also scabrous, and the flesh is pure white, which 
changes here and there to the slightest imaginable shade of cobalt on 
being cut or broken; the spores are yellowish-green, ovate, with an 
apiculus at one end, having a length of -00045 in. and a breadth of 
‘00017 in. There is a long and exhaustive account of this species, 
with some excellent figures, in Vittadini’s * Fungi Mangerecci,’ p. 153, 
t. 19, Milan, 1835. Krombholz also figures and describes it under 
the name of B. xanthophorus, in his * Naturgetreue Abbildungen,’ 
t. 75. f. 15-21, Prague, 1831 and 1846, but the figures in the latter 
work are not well done. Fries refers B. eneus of Secretan to the 
same species. 
Polyporus epileucus, Fr. Whilst out walking on Sunday, November 
17, 1867, I found a very large specimen of this species, which has 
not been previously recorded as British, growing on the trunk of an 
old Elm-tree (about ten feet from the ground) near the Sluice House, 
Holloway. It is a very large and handsome species, stemless, of a 
rich but subdued yellow colour, and somewhat corky consistence ; the 
tubes are very minute and about three-quarters of an inch long ; the 
pileus is tough, shaggy, and dingy white. It is figured in Fl. Dan., 
t. 1794, under the name of P. spumeus. 
Passing over for the present several other dond fide additions to onr 
