568 BOLETUS 



oblong fusiform, 12-15 x 4/u,, 2-3-guttulate. Smell and taste pleasant. 

 Edible. Woods. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1875. B. carnosus Rostk. Rostk. Bol. t. 14. Carnosus, fleshy. 

 P. 10-12 cm., fuscous, or bay brown, pulvinate, convex, glabrous. 



St. 6-7 x 2-3 cm., yellow, streaked with reddish brown, subequal, firm, 

 substriate. Tubes dark yellow, sinuato-adnate, long; orifice of pores 

 dark yellow, large, angular. Flesh pallid, dirty yellowish. Woods. 

 Sept. Oct. Rare. 



1876. B. vaccinus Fr. Fr. Sverig. atl. Svamp. t. 51. 



Vacci nus, pertaining to a cow. 



P. 5-10 cm., chestnut, convex, then expanded, minutely tomentose, 

 margin obtuse. St. 5-8 x 1-2 cm., concolorous, or paler than the p., 

 bulbous, or attenuated downwards, smooth; base becoming tawny, 

 lacunose. Tubes white, then light yellow, free ; orifice of pores round or 

 subangular, small. Flesh whitish, reddish under the cuticle of the p., 

 firm. Spores yellow, oblong fusiform, 1214 x 4 5/ii. Taste mild. 

 Edible. Subcaespitose. Woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1877. B. impolitus Fr. Fr. Sverig. atl. Svamp. t. 42. 



Impolitus, unpolished. 



P. 8-20 cm., pale yellow brown, or tawny brown, convex, then more 

 or less expanded, flocculose, at length granuloso-rivulose, sometimes 

 cracking into areolae. St. 6-9 x 3-5 cm., yellow, often tinged with 

 brownish red when full grown and forming a ring-like zone at the apex, 

 equal, or subbulbous, pubescent. Tubes pale lemon yellow, then tinged 

 with olivaceous green, free, or slightly adnate, depressed near the st. ; 

 orifice of pores small, round. Flesh whitish yellow, pale yellow under 

 the cuticle of the p., thick. Spores olivaceous, oblong-fusiform, 16-17 x 

 5-6/A. Smell and taste pleasant. Edible. Woods. June Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



1878. B. candicans Fr. Candicans, shining- white. 

 P. 8-12 cm., whitish, or pale tan colour, convex, then expanded, 



subtomentose, becoming smooth. St. 8-10 x 3-4-5 cm., concolorous, 

 delicately reticulated, ventricose, or bulbous. Tubes lemon yellow, ad- 

 nate, or sinuate, long; orifice of pores white, then lemon yellow, 

 roundish. Flesh white, becoming blue when broken, and then whitish, 

 thick. Spores dark olivaceous, oblong-fusiform, blunt at the one end, 

 13-14 x 4/i, 1-guttulate. Taste mild. Woods, and under trees. June 

 Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1879. B. fragrans Vitt. Fragrans, scented. 

 P. 6-9 cm.., fuscous umber, pulvinate, repand, subtomentose; margin 



incurved. St. 7-9 x 3-4 cm., variegated yellowish and red, stout, ven- 

 tricose, often fusiform at the base and ovato-bulbous, even. Tubes 



