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Tubes where longest about one-tenth of an inch, in some places not one- 
twentieth. Pores yellowish white, circular, so small as hardly to be per¬ 
ceptible to the naked eye. 
Pile-us flattish, but irregular, the edge cooped in and depressed in places, 
cracking, from three to six inches over. Flesh not one-tenth of an inch 
in thickness. When the pileus is quite central on the stem, it hangs 
flapping down on every side. 
Stem dark brown above, paler below, tough, thickening upwards, two inches 
long, half to one inch diameter. The stem varies in every degree of 
eccentricity, from perfectly central, to perfectly lateral, in which last state 
it is well figured, though from small plants, in 
Bolt. 168. 
Bolton observes the change it undergoes when very old, and Bulliard has 
a figure which represents it in that state, though I am aware it is an old 
plant of a different species. 
Bull. 360. 
But in their very old and woody state these plants lose their distinguishing 
characters. 
(Multiporous Boletus. E.) Gathered in all the above different states at 
the foot of some paling in the old Worcester road, near the cottage by 
the Park gate, Edgbaston. June. 
Bol. leptoceph'alus. Tubes white: pileus bay, flat, thin: stem 
brownish. 
Jacq. Misc. 1. 12. 
Tubes white, very short. 
Pileus tawny bay, flat, thin, leather-like; about one inch diameter. 
Stem pale or reddish brown, thick as a crow quill, and about half an inch 
long. 
(Short-tubed Leathery Boletus. E.) First observed in this island by 
Mr. Dickson, growingon decayed sticks. Fasc. iii. p. 21. 
Bol. aurantia'cus. (Bull.) Tubes whitish: pileus red orange: stem 
whitish, rough. 
Bull. 236 and 489. f. 2. R. S.—(Sowerby 110. E.) 
Tubes not decurrent, brownish white, one-third of an inch long, readily 
separating from the pileus. Pores brown white, circular or angular. 
Pileus convex, full orange red, viscid, four to six inches over, and sometimes 
much larger, thin at the edge, and without tubes for about one-tenth of 
an inch. Flesh yellowish white, not changing. 
Stem whitish, or pale yellowish white, rough with coloured pimples, thick¬ 
est downwards, either rounded or pointed at the base; spongy within, 
two to three and a half inches high, half to one inch or more in diameter. 
(Orange-coloured Boletus. Bol. aurantiacus. Hook. Purt. Bol. auran - 
Hus, Pers. E.) Fir plantations at Barr, Staffordshire. June. 
(2) Tubes brown. 
Bol. bovi'nus. (Linn.) Tubes pale yellowish brown, unequal in 
length: pileus brown or olive, clammy : stem thick, pale brown 
with rusty stains, 
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