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« hr:i^ ,':>;: The pores are fmall, unequal, and lacerated, 

 -'ijfii i.'-.'j. I wearing out by age, and leaving behind a kind 

 •- of naked gills, • ••'-•' 



sli/us 8. B. acaulis pulvinatus lasvls, poris oblongis et ro- 

 tundis. Hudf. Ang. 4.^6. n. 4. an BOLETUS 

 fuaveolens ? Lin. Sp. pi. 1646. n. 7. {Fig. 

 nulla jidenda.) ;- • • - v^< 



White Boletus. Anglis. 

 Upon the trunks of old willow trees, in a wood 



near Lafivadc. Dr. Parfons. 

 It grows feffile and horizontal ; the margin femi- 

 ? ' circular and waved •, thefubftance thick, white, 



dry, hardj and tough, like cork. 

 -The upper furface is convex, fmooth, and white^' 

 often ting'd with red, efpecially about that part 

 nf; -which adheres to the trunk. 

 The under fide is of a pale ye'llowifh brown 



coloi-; ■■; . .. --■■ i ■ ^y^^i^ -^ '■■ ■> --' 

 The pores are various. Some of them round or 

 ' angular, others long like parallelograms, deep, 

 ,fii.':. ■ and refembling gills clofed at both ends. 



bi.' ' "• The Pileus varies from three to eight inches or 



more in diameter. .1 



■ '. '■ ' We fiifped this fpecies to be the fame with the 



-L , Boletus fuaveolens. Lin. though ours has very 



- little fmell. If it be fo, it is the kind which 



that author informs us the Lapland beaux carry 



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