BOLETUS 563 



lens; margin almost even. St. 2-5-6-5 x 1-2 cm., yellowish, streaked 

 or blotched with dilute crimson, or brownish, slightly bulbous at the 

 base, and with traces of long reticulations at the apex. Tubes golden 

 yellow, or dullish yellow, becoming bluish or greenish when bruised, 

 and finally orange, adnate, or slightly depressed round the st., 

 4-7 mm. long ; orifice of pores angular, medium in size. Flesh yellow, 

 then rosy, "becoming bluish when cut or broken" Perceval, soft. Spores 

 "15-18/A, guttulate" Quel. Taste somewhat acid. Woods, and pas- 

 tures. July Sept. Rare. 



1858. B. subtomentosus (Linn.) Fr. Holland, Champ, t. 80, no. 181. 



Sub, somewhat; tomentosus, downy. 



P. 3-10 cm., more or less deep brownish olivaceous, convex, then 

 pulvinato-expanded, soft, dry, villoso-tomentose, sometimes cracked 

 into patches with the interstices yellow. St. 5-12 x 1-2 cm., 

 yellowish, usually streaked with red, attenuated downwards, sulcately 

 ribbed, the taivny ribs sometimes anastomosing, rough with dots under 

 a lens. Tubes golden sulphur yellow, adnate; orifice of pores large, 

 angular. Flesh white, or yellowish, rust colour under the cuticle of the p., 

 soft. Spores pale yellow, oblong elliptical, 12-14 x 5/u,. Taste mild. 

 Edible. Woods, heaths, and pastures. July Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



var. radicans (Krombh.) Massee. Krombh. t. 48, figs. 1-6. 



Radicans, rooting. 



Differs from the type in the usually undulated, bright yellowish olive 

 green p., the st. whitish below, yellow and strongly grooved above and the 

 tubes greenish-olive at maturity. Woods. 



var. striaepes (Seer.) Quel. Stria, a line ; pes, foot. 



Differs from the type in the bistre olive, silky p., and the yellow stem 

 with thin bistre ribs, brownish red at the base. Woods. Oct. Rare. 



var. marginalis Boud. Boud. Icon. t. 142 Marginalis, bordered. 

 Differs from the type in being more slender, in the fuliginous p. being 

 bordered with a pale, tomentose zone at the margin, in the longer almost 

 smooth st., and in the narrower pores. Woods. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1859. B. cruentus Vent. Venturi, t. 43, figs. 3 and 4. 



Cruentus, bloody. 



P. 7-10 cm., olivaceous with a reddish tinge, becoming instantly red 

 where bruised, convex, then plane, soft, minutely tomentose. St. 5 

 8 x 2-5-4 cm., yellow with reddish markings, gradually attenuated up- 

 wards from the incrassated, rooting base, minutely fiocculose. Tubes 

 pale yellowish olive, sinuato-free, long; orifice of pores yellowish, 

 minute, subangular. Flesh yellow, becoming red when cut, thick, firm. 

 Spores "pale olive, elliptic-fusiform, 14-16 x 5 /A" Massee, 1-guttu- 

 late. Smell strong. Under beeches. Aug. 



362 



