566 BOLETUS 



II. Pores small, round, equal; tubes free, or sinuate, sometimes adnate, 

 long, connate. P. dry, smooth, or tomentose, rarely viscid or moist 

 in wet weather. St. thick, smooth, tomentose, or floccose, often 

 ribbed or reticulate. Spores yellow, ochraceous, or olivaceous, rarely 

 brown, or white, elliptic fusiform. Generally large in size and thick. 



A. St. fibrillosely fleshy, generally firm, thick, ovoid at first; either 

 covered with a network of white, straw-coloured, yellow, or red veins, 

 or minutely punctate, or granular, rarely smooth. Pores small, round, 

 white, or coloured; tubes concolorous, free, or sinuate, rarely 

 adnate. Flesh generally firm, white, or coloured, changing colour 

 or not, but never becoming black. Generally large in size. 



fFlesh white, or yellow, unchangeable, sometimes reddish or vinous 

 rosy under the cuticle, tasty, often fragrant. Pores white, cream, 

 or yellow, sometimes becoming greenish with age, never becoming 

 blue or green when touched. St. with a white, straw-coloured, or 

 brownish cream network, sometimes smooth, rarely floccose, or 

 reddish. 



1869. B. regius Krombh. Krombh. t. 7. Regius, royal. 

 P. 712-5 cm., bright rose-pink, reddish purple, or olivaceous, convex, 



pulvinate, dry, smooth, or minutely tomentose. St. 5-9 x 3-5 cm., 

 pale yellow, becoming purplish at the base, reticulate. Tubes golden 

 yellow, almost free, short; orifice of pores small, subangular. Flesh 

 pale yellow, very thick. Spores "pale yellow, elongate fusiform, 

 16 x 5fj," Massee. Taste pleasant. Edible. Gregarious. Woods, and 

 open places. Aug. Oct. Uncommon. 



1870. B. edulis (Bull.) Fr. Holland, Champ, t. 81, no. 182. 



Edulis, eatable. 



P. 10-20 cm., bay, brown, fuliginous, or bistre, rarely ivhite, the margin 

 often white, convex, pulvinate, smooth, often rugose, somewhat viscid 

 in wet weather. St. 10-15 x 3-6 cm., pallid fuscous, delicately reticu- 

 lated, equal, or attenuated upwards from the bulbous base. Tubes 

 white, then yellow, and finally greenish, somewhat free, long; orifice of 

 pores small, round. Flesh white, often faintly tinged reddish under the 

 cuticle of the p., compact, then softer, thick. Spores yellow, fusiform, 

 13-16 x 4-4-5/z, 1-3-guttulate. Smell and taste pleasant. Edible. 

 Woods, especially beech. June Nov. Common, (v.v.) 

 var. laevipes Massee. Laevis, smooth; pes, foot. 



Differs from the type in the absence of reticulations on the perfectly 

 even, white, or faint buff st. Woods. Aug. Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



var. bulbosus (Bull.) Big. & Guill. (= Boletus crassus Massee.) 



Bulbosus, bulbous. 



Differs from the type in the bulbous st. often exceeding, or equalling 

 in width the diameter of the p., in the flesh becoming pale primrose yellow, 



