158 FUNGI OF EAST DORSET. 



This brings the Supplementary Notes of Part I. to a con- 

 clusion, consisting of the extensive observations of Mr. C. B. 

 Green, of Swanage, for Purbeck, and some additional records 

 from Edmondsham and the immediate neighbourhood. 



PART II. - 

 Class I. BASIDIOMYCETES. 



Order I. HYMENOCETES. 

 Family 2. POLYPOREAE Fr. 



Genus 1. BOLETUS Linn. (Latin for a mushroom, perhaps 

 from Gr. bolus, a clod, from the round shape of the 

 pileus). Roundly convex, like a mushroom, but 

 hymenium perforated with numerous pores. 



B. luteus Linn. (Lat., pale yellow, the colour of the 

 cap under the gluten). In woods, chiefly of pine, 

 common ; edible. Furze Common Copse, and Castle 

 Hill Wood, in Edmondsham ; Martin Wood 3m. E. 

 and plantation 1m. S.E. of Cranborne ; fir plantation 

 near Mt. Pleasant, Horton. 



B. flavus With. (Lat., golden-yellow.) 



Margin of pine woods, &c., fairly common ; edible 

 but mucilaginous. Great Down Copse, and wood 

 S. of Castle Hill ; plantations S.E. of Cranborne, and 

 S. of Daggon's Road Station. 



B. chrysenteron Fr. (Gr., golden within, from the 

 colour of the flesh). 



In woods ; not uncommon ; pileus often showing 

 cracks, interstices reddish. Copse and dry grass 

 field adjoining Birches' Copse ; Castle Hill Wood 

 and another wood S. of Castle Hill. 



B. variegatus Swartz. (Lat., variegated, from the 

 speckled cap). 



