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fleeketl with brownish to greenish-lirown filirillose scales, teniling to crack, brown 
with a greenish tinge or dingy yellowisli-olive (tints approacliing brown pink 
and browner than bistre green). Tuljes ij t<i llin, (l.S to ■’! cm.) long, just 
reaching the stem but leaving a slight sulcus, pinkish orange-yellow or yellowish- 
green becoming dark-brown when old or injured (near chrome yellow and golden 
vellow, with reddish stains), orifices moderately large, rather irregular. 8tem 
sometimes exc.'’ntric, uj) to Tiin. (19 cm.) long, very stout (up to Tin., 17.5 cm., 
thick in the middle, 5-lin., 15.7 cm., thick above), l)ulbous, ending below in a 
sliort conical root, mouldy-looking green with tints of yellow and brown or ilingy 
vellowish-brown (tints of old olive green, olive brawn), darker below, punctate- 
looking from gi'oups of villosities, not reticulated. Flesh u]i to 2in. (5 cm.) 
thick, whitish but slightly dingy, sometimes turning yellowish with shades of 
[Photo. 1)1/ E. AO'.//cr.v. 
Figure 38. — Kohlos- hifrux (L.) Fr. (No. 282). National Park, South 
Australia. Flesh edible when young. 
sage-green or Iduish-green iuid around insect marks and sometimes in the stem 
reddish, soft in texture like firm cotton-wool anil ditificult to cut. Spores oljli(|uely 
ellipticid or pear-shaped to oval, brownish, 7 to S.5 x 5 to d m. Taste mild. 
The largest specimen food wtnghed Tibs. 2ozs. South Australia — ilontacute. 
Bull's Ureek. Kinchina, MacDonnell Bay (S.K.). New South 5Vales. .January 
to May, October. (Figure 59.) 
2S4. Boletus ovalisporus Clel. (L., oiaUn, oval: aporo. seed). — Pileus 2 to (ilin. 
(5 to Hi cm.), irregularly convex to phni(> juid upturned, viscid when moist, 
smooth and shining or matt wlien dry, edge turned in somewhat wdien young, 
tinted witli shades of yellow -and red' (Biglit Cadmium, iv., mixed with Tawny 
Olive, XXIX.; near Xaples Yellow, xvi., with some stains of reddish-brown or 
Ochraceous Tawny, xv., Dresden Brown, xv., Snuif Brown, XX'IX., etc., with 
tinges of yellow and occasionally of Claret Brown, I.). Tubes with a slight 
sulcus round th,* stem, | to ?in.’ ( (i to 10 mm.) deep, dissepiments thin, paler 
than ilustard Yellow (xvi.), near Old (told (xvi.), near Baryta Yellow (iv.). 
