272 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



Smaller than Boletus cyanescens, not juicy. Pileus at first 

 encircling the base of the somewhat marginato-hulbons 

 stem, which is not constricted at the apex as in B. cyanescens. 

 (Fries.) 



Pilens 3 in. broad, depressed when old, but broadly pul- 

 vinate in the centre, snbtomentose, the down, raised np into 

 little flat scales, beautiful dark rufous tan ; flesh thick, 

 mottled, stained beneath the cuticle with the colour of the 

 pileus, not changing colour, viscid, insipid or subacid ; tubes 

 vivid yellow, half-free, not reaching to the extreme margin ; 

 spores yellow ; stem sometimes short, swelling in the centre, 

 attenuated below, hollow, sometimes, long and equal, beauti- 

 fully tinged with yellow and rufous. (Berk.) 



Solitary. Stem 2-3 in. long, ^1 in. thick, constantly 

 very smooth, subattenuated upwards, cylindrical, firm, 

 colour of the pileus or a little paler. Pileus pulvinate, even, 

 dry, villoso-pulverulent or nearly glabrous, 2 in. broad, 

 chestnut, margin patent, obtuse, hymenium almost plane. 

 Flesh white, unchangeable, or becoming pale lilac-chestnut 

 towards the edges when broken. Tubes about equal in 

 length to the thickness of the flesh of the pileus, straight, 

 straw-colour, at length yellow, equal, minute, subrotund, not 

 decurrent. (Fries.) 



Boletus spadiceus. Schaeff. 



Pileus 2—4 in. across, convex then expanded, sometimes 

 becoming almost plane, dry, tomentose, bay-brown, opaque, 

 often irregularly cracked ; flesh thick, white, reddish-brown 

 under the cuticle ; tubes adnate, :|— | in. long, openings 

 minute, subrotund, yellow ; stem 2-3 in. long, f-1 in. thick 

 at the base, attenuated upwards, even, flocouloso-furfura- 

 ceous, yellowish-brown, solid, flesh yellowish. 



Boletus spadiceus, Sohaeffer, t. 126 ; Stev., Brit. Fung., 

 p. 173. 



In woods. Solitary or in clusters of 2-3. Stem firm, 

 pale yellowish-brown in Schaefier's figure, deep orange^ 

 brown in Krombholtz's figure, tab. 36, f. 19 and 20, also 

 quoted by Fries under the present species. The stem is not 

 red at all. 



Boletus vaceinus. Fr. 

 Pileus 2-4 in. across, convex then expanded, minutely 



