PL cell. aph. 11. HYMENOTHECEJE. 276. Leccin. 647 
2. Leccinum scabrum. Rough leccino. 
Stem slender, scales blackish ; cap rather wrinkled, 
opake, smoke-grey ; pores pale white, depressed round 
the stem. 
Boletus scaber, Sowerby, 175; Persoon Syn . 505. 
In beech woods; autumn. 
Esculent; pickled by the Russians and Poles. 
3. Leccinum lactifluum. Milk-yielding leccino. 
Stem pale-yellow; cap reddish-buff, thick, convex, glu- 
tinous, flesh-white ; tubes yellow, filled with a milklike 
juice. 
Boletus lactifluus, Withering Arr. 4, 355 ; Persoon Syn. 506. 
In parks. 
4. Leccinum subtomentosum . Rather-woolly leccino . 
Thallus middle-size ; stem rather slender, reddish in the 
middle, or uniformly yellowish ; cup cushionlike, plano- 
convex, rather woolly, reddish or greyish-yellow ; flesh 
scarcely altering; pores large. 
Boletus subtomentosus, Lin. S. P. 1647 ; Persoon Syn. 507. 
In woods; autumn. 
5. Leccinum piper atum. Pepper leccino • 
Stem yellow at bottom and in the inside; cap rather 
thick, cushionlike, bent, cinnamon; pores large, convex, 
rust-red. 
Boletus piperatus, Sowerby Fungi , 34; Persoon Syn. 507. 
In woods. 
Taste acrid and burning, like capsicum. 
6. Leccinum constrictum. Bound leccino . 
Stem smooth, bellied, greyish-white at top ; cap broad, 
greyish ; flesh bluish ; pores white. 
Boletus cyanescens, Bull. Champ. 319; Withering Arr. 4,345. 
Boletus constrictus, Persoon Syn. 508. 
In gardens. 
7. Leccinum edule. Eatable leccino . 
Stem tuberous, rather bellied, greyish-red, with net- 
work; cap cushionlike, very wide, brownish-red; flesh not 
changing colour ; pores at first stuffed, whitish, grow yellow. 
Boletus edulis, Bull. Herb. 494; Persoon Syn. 510. 
In woods and heaths; autumn. 
Taste grateful, like that of the cocoa-nut. 
