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FiSTULINA. 
SO. F. hepatica. 
FiSTULINA hepatica, With. Bot Arr. ed. 6. v. 4. p. 371. 
^Fries' Syst, My col. v. 1. p. 396. — Gray's Nat. Arr. 
V. 1. p. 648. 
Fist, buglossoides, Bull. Champ, p. 314. t. 74. 464. et 
496— P^r^. Traite, p. 245. 
Boletus hepaticus, Huds. FL AngL v. p. 625. — 
Schcef. Fung. t. 116. & l^O.-^Sow. Fung. t. 58.— 
Bolt. Fung. t. ^d.—Pers. Syn. Fung. p. 54<9.—De 
Cand. ed. 3. v. 2. p. llS.^Lightf. FL Scot. p. 1034. 
^Hook. Fl. Scot. pt. 2. p. 26. 
BoL. buglossum, Fl. Dan. t. 1039. 
Hab. Trunks of trees, especially the oak. Autumn. 
Desc. Plant of no regular form, entire or lobed, sessile 
or supported on a short thick stem, colour like that of 
an ox-liver ; substance fleshy and very juicy, becom- 
ing glutinous in age, when cut, the flesh is more or 
less flesh-red, and somewhat marbled or zoned. Pileus 
3-6 inches long, 3-4 broad, at first bright-red, which 
gradually darkens ; surface scattered over with little 
eminences, resembling, under the glass, minute roses, 
which fall oif, and are nothing more than the rudi- 
ments of tubes. Hymenium or under surface plane, 
yellowish, or pale reddish. Tubes pale whitish or yel- 
lowish, crowded, distinct, and separated by fleshy 
fibres, J an inch long, the mouths denticulated. 
The only species of the genus, which is characterized by 
the tubes being distinct, and separated from eath other by 
an intervening substance. 
