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more inches long, three quarters of an inch thick, 

 paler than the cap, apparently frosted with brown. 

 When cut the flesh is dirty white, but it has a tendency 

 here and there to become blue. For this reason, if 

 for no other, we repeat the caution to beginners not to 

 eat this or any other species which turns blue, unless 

 it has been identified and recommended by some 

 competent person. For ourselves we should not 

 hesitate to eat the " bay boletus," but then we should 

 first satisfy ourselves that it was that species, and no 

 other, previous to the experiment. 



Boleti are certainly fond of growing under fir trees, 

 for there is another rather common species found in 

 such situations, which, if not enticing in appearance, 

 has been commended. The dingy boletus {Boletus 

 bovinus), or as the latin name implies, " oxen " boletus 

 grows in companies, with a cap about two inches 

 broad, smooth and viscid, almost slimy, reddish grey, 

 dull yellow, or deep buff, paler at the margin, which is 

 whitish and woolly, stem two or three inches high, and 

 one half to three quarters of an inch thick, of the same 

 colour as the cap, sometimes attenuated below, and 

 streaked with watery lines. Flesh tinged with the 

 general colour, but unchangeable. Pores angular, 

 very shallow, and compound, dirty yellow, becoming 

 rusty when old. It has a strong odour resembling 

 that of the fairy-ring champignon. As an edible 

 species it has been compared with the granular 

 boletus. 



