CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI. 103 1' 



BOLETUS. Gen. pi. 1210. 



FUNGUS horizontalis, fubtus porofus. 

 * Parafitici acaules. 

 tenax i. BOLETUS acaulis fuberofus imbricatus flavus 

 Icevis, poris minutis teretibus. {Schaf. fung. 

 t. 131. ^/ 132. Oft.) 



Tough Boletus. Anglis. ' - - 



Upon trunks of hollow trees. V. and IX. 

 This is generally of a pale yellow or a buff color, 

 and of a thick tough elaftic fubftance, like 

 " ' " cork. 



It grows felTile 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 fphsrical, and lodged in the pores^ 

 like a fine powder. 

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



head, 



fuberofui 2.- B. acaulis pulvlnatus albus Isevrs, poris acutis dif- 



formibus. Sp. pi. 1645. {Fig. nulla fidenuj .) 

 "^■■^ ' . U u u 4 White 



