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The color of this is generally either tawny or pale 

 brown, the fubftance foft and ipongy. 



It grows fefiile and horizontal for the mofl part, 

 but is foinetimes furnifhed with a Ihort thick 

 irregular footilalk. Its figure is very vrriable, 

 but is moft ufually femicircular, wiih a waved 

 rim, and grows either fingle, or many logether 

 lying over each other. The upper furiace is 

 either convex or flat, from four inches to a foot 

 or more in width, and cover- I with brown re- 

 flex'd fcales. The under fide is full of laige 

 white or cream-color'd quadrangular pores, 

 with waved margins. 



It does not feeni to be defcrib'd by Limaus, 



■fpongiofus B. acaulis villofus fufcus, poris albidis ciliatis an- 

 4* gularibus. {Fig. nulla.) 



Spongy Boletus. Anglis. 

 On the trunks of trees. VII. 

 It grows feflile and horizontal ; the margin femi- 

 circular, the upper fide convex, and covered 

 with dark brown woolly hairs ; the under fide 

 nearly plain ; generally white or cream-colored, 

 and full of angular downy or ciliated pores. 

 It grows to a prodigious fize, fometimes as big 

 as a peck-meafure, and is of a foft fpongy lub- 

 ftance. 



B. acaulis 



