CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 1031 



BOLETUS. Gen. pL 12 10. 



FUNGUS horizontalis, fubtus porofus. 

 * Parafitici acauks. 

 tenax i. BOLETUS acaulis fuberofus imbricatus flavus 



Jsevis, poris minutis terecibus. {Sch^f. fung. 



t. 1^1. et 1^2. opt.) 

 Tough Boletus. Anglis. 

 Upon trunks of hollow trees. V. and IX. 

 This is generally of a pale yellov/ or a buff color, 



and of a thick tough elaftic fubftance, like 



cork. 

 It grows feffile and horizontal to the trunks of 



trees, appearing, at firft like a yellow knobbed 



irregular lump, as big as a man's fift, which 



afterwards unfolds itfelf into an imbricated mafs 



of thick lobes, arched and finuated on the 



margins, convex above and below, the furface 



fmooth but uneven. 

 The under fide is yellow and full of fmall round 



pores. 

 The feeds are fphserical, and lodged in the pores 



like a fine powder. 

 This Fungus often forms a clump as big as a man's 



head. 



fid^erofus 2. B. acaulis pulvinatus albus l^evis, poris acutis dif- 

 formibu^ Sp. pi. 1645. [Fig. nulla fidenda.) 

 fe^ U u u 4 White 



