BOLETUS 571 



**Pores at first red, or orange, rarely yellow. St. reticulated with red 

 veins, often punctate with red, rarely white, or yellow. 



1887. B. satanas Lenz. (= Boletus tuberosus (Bull.) Quel.) Krombh. 

 Icon. t. 38, figs. 1-6, as Boletus sanguineus Pers. 



Sarams, the Devil. 



P. 9-20 cm., at first more or less tinged with red, then becoming 

 brownish, and finally whitish, globose, then convex, pulvinate, some- 

 what viscid, smooth. St. 7-10 x 5-6 cm., dingy yellow, reticulated with 

 blood red veins, ovato-ventricose. Tubes yellow, free; orifice of pores 

 yellow, then rubiginous, and finally orange, round, minute. Flesh 

 white, then cream colour, becoming bluish or greenish on exposure to 

 the air, reddish in the st., thick, firm. Spores olivaceous, oblong 

 elliptic, 11-13 x 4-5 /u,, 2-3-guttulate. Taste mild. Woods, and heaths. 

 July Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1888. B. luridus (Schaeff.) Fr. Holland, Champ, t. 85, no. 189. 



Luridus, lurid in colour. 



P. 5-20 cm., umber olivaceous, or fuliginous, hemispherical, convex, 

 then plane, tomentose. St. 5-15 x 3-6 cm., yellow, reticulated with 

 blood red veins, equal, or incrassated at the base. Tubes yellow, at 

 length becoming green, free ; orifice of pores at first vermilion, then 

 orange, round, small. Flesh yellow, becoming immediately deep indigo 

 on exposure to the air, and then again yellow, reddish at the base of the 

 tubes and at the base of the st., thick, compact. Spores yellowish, oblong 

 fusiform, or oblong elliptical, 12-13 x 4/x, 2-3-guttulate. Taste 

 pleasant. Edible. Woods, especially deciduous woods, heaths, and 

 pastures. May Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



1889. B. erythropus (Pers.) Quel. pv0po$, red; iroifc, foot. 

 P. 10-15 cm,, brown, or bay, often tawny rufescent, convex, minutely 



pubescent. St. 5-12 x 2-4 cm., yellow, punctate with red, ventricose, 

 minutely tomentose. Tubes yellow, free ; orifice of pores dark blood red, 

 round, or subangular. Flesh yellow, becoming deep indigo in the p. and 

 upper part of the st. on exposure to the air, blood red in the rest of the st., 

 yellow at the base of the tubes, thick, compact. Spores yellow, fusiform, 

 12-13 x 4/t, 2-3-guttulate. Taste pleasant. Woods, especially coni- 

 ferous woods. Aug. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1890. B. purpureus Fr. Fr. Sverig. atl. Svamp. t. 41. 



Purpureus, purple. 



P. 7-12 cm., purplish red, or violet, rarely brownish, hemispherical, 

 pulvinate, somewhat velvety, opaque, dry. St. 6-11 x 2-3 cm., yellow, 

 reticulate with purple veins and dots, and often dotted on the veins, equal, 

 attenuated at the base. Tubes light yellow, becoming greenish, somewhat 

 free; orifice of pores purple orange, round, minute. Flesh yellow, be- 

 coming bluish on exposure to the air when young and reddish at the base 



