CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 1037 



The pores are fmall, unequal, and lacerated, 

 wearing out by age, and leaving behind a kind 

 of naked gills. 



B, acaulis pulvinatus Isvis, poris oblongis et ro- 

 tundjs. Htidf, Ang. 496. n. 4. an BOLETUS 

 fuaveolens ? Lin. Sp. pL 1 646. «. 7. {Fig. 

 nulla fidenda.) 



White Boletus. AngUs. 



Upon the trunks of old willow trees, in a wood 

 near Lapuoade. Dr. Parfons. 



It grows feflile and horizontal ; the margin femi- 

 circular and waved ; thefubftance thick, white, 

 dry, hard, and tough, like cork. 



The upper furface is convex, fmooth, and white," 

 often ting'd with red, efpecially about that part 

 which adheres to the trunk. 



The under fide is of a pale yellowifh brown 

 color. 



The pores are various. Some of them round or 

 angular, others long like parallelograms, deep^ 

 and refembling gills clofed at both ends. 



The Tileus varies from three to eight inches ar 

 more in diameter. 



We fufpeft this fpecies to be the fame with the 

 Boletus fuaveolens. Lin, though ours has very 

 little fmell. If it be 10, it is the kind which 

 that author informs us the Lapland beaux carry 



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