CRYPTOGAMIA FUNGI, 1033 



. ^' , • ;■• The color of this is generally either tawny or pale 



brown, the fubftance foft and ipongy. 



Jc grows fefiile and horizontal for the moft part, 



but is fometimes furniflied with a (lioi t thick 



^ irregular footftalk. Its figure is very variable, 



but is moft ufually femicircular, with a waved 



' ' rim, and grows either fingle, or many together 



; ', lying over each other. The upper fiirface is 



; '.': :* either convex or flat, from four inches to a foot 



; .. . . : or more in width, and covered with brown re- 



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



c(U /!'. ' -^ ' white or cream-color'd quadrangular pores, 



bi.., -.■; with waved margins. 



-jij! c: I . It does not feeni tobe dekub'd by Lima-us. 

 ,.4:r ■ , • ' 



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



4* gularibus. {Fig- nulla.) 



\T.:n t'-.v'- Spongy Boletus, Anglis. 



On the trunks of trees. VII. 

 {Mir^iS. ■ It grows feffile 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, 

 .V. .• . ' : and full of angular downy or ciliated pores. 

 .\i\ ... It grows to a prodigious fize, fometimes as big 



.sii . .. as a peck-meafure, and is of a foft fpongy fub- 



ftance. 



; B. acaulis 



