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and bulb-like, then elongated and nearly equal, somewhat 
reticulated or punctate. For the most part poisonous. 
566. Boletus luridus. Schceff. t. 107. Fr. Hym. Fur. 511. 
Sverig. Svam. t. 12. Sacc. Syll. 4768. 
Pileus pulvinate, tomentose, olive-umber, then rather viscid, 
fuliginous ; stem stout, cinnabar red, reticulated or punctate ; 
tubes free, yellow, at length greenish ; pores round, scarlet, then 
orange. Flesh yellow, speedily becoming blue when cut or 
bruised. 
On the ground. Queensland. 
Series II. Tephroleuci. Tubes at first white or grey. 
g. Favosi. Fr. Tubes broad, angular, unequal, adnate to the 
stem, but often shortened as they approach the stem, not forming 
a rounded-free stratum ; spores brown. 
None recorded in Australia. 
h. Versipelles, Tubes minute, rounded, equal, crowded in a 
convex stratum, free from the stem. Spores ferruginous. 
567. Boletus marginatus. Drum. Berk. Dec. 33, p. 9. 
Sacc. Syll. 4798. 
Pileus convex, compact, delicately velvety (5 in. diam.) ; 
margin thin, distinct from the hymenium, involute ; stem short, 
turbinately tuberous, somewhat rooting (l£ long and thick), 
black, not reticulated, rather velvety; tubes free, fuscous, pallid 
within ; spores broadly elliptic, pallid, ferruginous. 
On the ground. Victoria. W. Australia. 
568. Boletus prunicolor. Cooke <j- Mass. Grev. xvi., 32. 
Pileus pulvinate, soft, viscid (2 in. diam.), plum colour or 
purplish, even ; stem unequal, ventricose, clavate, or clavately 
bulbous, pallid, even (3 in. long, in. thick); tubes very short 
behind, scarcely free ; pores rounded, minute, simple, pallid ; 
spores elongated, elliptical, 18-20 X 6, olive. 
On the ground. Victoria. 
j. Hyporrhodii. Tubes adnate to the stem, whitish; spores rosy, 
then pale-flesh coloured. 
569. Boletus felleus. Bull. Champ, t. 379. Fr. Sverig. 
Svam. t. 52. Sacc. Syll. 4801. 
Pileus pulvinate, then expanded, soft, smooth, even, somewhat 
gilvous; stem solid, attenuated upwards and reticulated ; tubes 
adnate, convex, elongated ; pores angular, and as well as the flesh 
when broken, white, then flesh coloured. Spores, 12-16 x 4 p.. 
Taste bitter. 
In woods. Victoria. Queensland. 
