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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Boletus. 
Boletus stipitatus, pileo glabro pulvinato marginato , poris compositis acutis, 
porulis angulatis brevioribus. Linn. 
Bull. 60. 
Tubes pale yellowish brown, not touching the stem, the longest quarter to 
one-half inch long. Pores brown white, becoming more brown, and red 
brown with age. 
Pileus convex, thin at the edge, dark brown to olive, or tawny brown, 
viscid; three to six inches over. Flesh very thick, spongy, white, not 
changing colour. 
Stem dirty white with reddish stains, white in the flesh, but sometimes with 
a reddish tinge, three to seven inches high, and three quarters to one and 
a half inch diameter. 
This species, though not uncommon, has been the occasion of great con¬ 
fusion, partly because it had never been well figured before the 60th plate 
of Bulliard appeared, and partly from the Linnsean character holding 
forth the inequality of the pores as its most prominent feature. It is 
true the pores appear very much like a piece of sponge, both in colour 
and shape, and admit of great variety in size and figure, especially as we 
find sets of tubes together, opening with small pores, surrounded by other 
longer tubes, which Linnaeus calls compound pores. This is a striking 
circumstance, but as it likewise exists in several other of the larger Boleti 
in their fully expanded state, instead of aiding the discrimination, it has 
produced confusion. Not less than ten of the plates of Schaeffer have 
been given to this plant, though none of them represent it except 103 and 
104, which are varieties, and 134 and 135, which may also be varieties, 
but it does not appear that they are known as British plants. 
Schaeff. 105, is B. luteus, with bright yellow tubes and pores, and a crimson 
and yellow stem. 
Schaeff. 107, has green yellow tubes and crimson pores, and is B. rubiolarius. 
- -108, is a variety of B. luteus. 
--112, has green yellow tubes and pores, with an orange pileus. 
--130, has lemon-coloured tubes and pores, a dotted brick-red pileus, 
and a yellow and pinky stem. 
■ — 133, is B. lactifluus, with a milky or yellow juice. 
Micheli t. 68. 69, generally; 68. 1. and 68. 1, 2, more particularly, have been 
referred to for Bol. bovinus; also Battar. 29 A. B. and 30 A. B.; but 
notwithstanding a general resemblance in the figures, the descriptions of 
the authors give little reason to believe that they are the plant. 
(Cow Boletus. Gaelic. Bonaid-an-losgainn. Bol. bovinus. Lightf. Huds. 
Schaeff. Hook. Purt. Frequent in pastures. E.) Edgbaston park. 
Oct.* 
Var. 2. Tubes pale yellowish: pores tawny: pileus buffy brown; stem red 
brown, reticulated at bottom. 
Bolt. 85. 
Tubes not touching the stem; pores round, small. Sept.f 
Var. 3. Tubes brown white. Pileus brown, clothy. Stem dirty white, 
tapering greatly upwards. 
* (Cows, deer, sheep, and swine will feed upon this and other Boleti, and are some¬ 
times greatly disordered by them. Lightf. FI. Scot. E.) 
j- (The young plants of this variety, or one very similar to it, are eaten in Italy, and 
esteemed a great delicacy. The Germans also receive them as a dainty, under the 
name of Gombas and Brat-Bulz, Lightf. E.) 
