S'72 
MR GREVILLE ON THE 
Hab. Woods, borders of fields, &c. Summer and au- 
tumn; frequent. 
Desc. Pileus convex above and below, inches broad 
or more, humid, somewhat glutinous, sometimes scaly, 
and in dry weather losing its gluten and cracking, of 
various colours, orange, red, brownish, olivaceous, 
livid, or dark-grey. Flesh white, either not changing 
or turning blackish. Tithes long, white, orifice minute, 
obtuse, at length dingy, free. Stem whitish, long^ 
attenuated above, particularly at its attachment to the 
pileus, firm, ^abrous, with dark furfuraceous minute 
scales. 
Fersook, in his Traite^ keeps Bol. aurantiacus and 
sCaber distinct, but observes that they possess the same 
properties; and De Candolle, in his Essai, so frequently 
quoted in these observations, states them to be confounded 
together throughout the greater part of France under the 
names of roussile and gyrole rouge^ and in Italy under that 
of leccino. It is called lingua di leccio in Fiemont. 
According to Bulliard and others, it is eaten either 
broiled, or in the form of white sauce. It ought to be ga- 
thered while young, as in old plants the flesh becomes dis- 
agreeably soft and insipid. 
In the determination of the species, I have followed 
Fries, and given his description almost verbatim. I ex- 
amined a great number of specimens this autumn 
in the Highlands of Scotland, and fully agree with him in 
the union, not only of B. scabcr and aurantiacus, but of 
the other varieties brought together in the synonymes. 
