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These, except in their larger number, resembled the fruit-bodies 



FIG. 74. Boletus scaber, a fleshy agaric with white pores and a roughened stipe, 

 often consumed as food by the Red Squirrel of North America. Photographed 

 at Scarborough, England, by A. E. Peck. 



of the first collection, so that a further description of them is 

 unnecessary. 



