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culate, equal or slightly attenuated below, springing from a mass- 
of earth traversed by mycelium. Pores perfectly free, leaving a 
deep pit round the stem, compound, irregular, pale orange yellow. 
Spores obovate, pointed below. 
On the ground at roots of Pleurandra. Tasmania. 
556. Boletus Thozetii. Berk. Austr. Fun. 254. Sacc. Syll. 
4703. 
Yellow ; pileus granulately-warted, stem slender, flexuous ; 
pores free. 
On barren soil. Queensland. 
557. Boletus brunneus. Che. 4' Mass. Grev. xix., 90. 
Pileus pulvinate, convex, subtomentose, at length cracking into 
innate scaly patches (10-12 c.m. broad), reddish brown. Stem 
short, thick, attenuated upwards (7 c.m. long, 5 c.m. thick at the 
base), colour of the pileus striate with black, flesh whitish, blue 
when cut, at length brown. Tubes free, pores rather large, angular, 
greenish grey. Spores 14-15 x 4 p, olive. 
On the ground. Victoria. 
c. Subpbuinosi. Tubes adnate to the stem, yellowish. Stem equal, 
not bulbous or reticulated. Pileus smooth but sometimes prui- 
nose. 
None recorded in Australia. 
d. Calopodes. Stem stout, at first bulbous, typically reticulately 
veined. Tubes adnate, pores not reddish. 
558. Boletus calopus. Fr. Nym. Eur. 506. Sacc. Syll. 4726. 
Pileus globose, then pulvinate, unpolished, rather tomentose, 
olive ; stem firm, conical then nearly equal, reticulated, everywhere 
or only at the apex crimson ; tubes adnate, pores minute, angular, 
yellow. Flesh pallid, a little turning blue. 
In woods. N.S.Wales. 
559. Boletus pachypus. Fr. Hym. Eur. 506. Sverig. Svam. 
t. 68. Sacc. Syll. 4728. 
Pileus pulvinate, rather tomentose (4-8 in.), brownish, then 
pallid tan-colour ; stem thick, firm, reticulated, variegated with 
yellow and red ; tubes somewhat elongated, shortened around the 
stem, pores round, yellow. Spores ovate, 12-14 x 5-6 p, yellowish 
ochre. Flesh whitish, slightly turning blue. 
In woods. Queensland. N.S.Wales. 
e. Edules. Stratum of tubes, which at first are not reddish, but 
commonly stuffed with white, depressed and rounded about the 
stem, nearly free. Stature stout and bulbous, but the stem 
( except in two species ) not reticulated, or dotted with point-like 
scales, or red. Flesh scarcely changing colour, of a pleasant 
taste. 
