CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Boletus. 
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Bolt. 86 — Schceff. 104, hut the tubes represented more yellow than ours. 
Tubes not connected with the stem, brown white, sometimes greenish, hardly 
quarter of an inch long. Pores dilute watery brownish white, irregular 
in shape and size. 
Pileus warm brown, paler towards the edge, regularly convex, feels like fine 
cloth, cracking superficially at the edge, but not so as to show the flesh. 
Flesh white, changing slowly when cut to a pinky cast. 
Stem dirty white, pear-shaped at bottom, and tapering upwards, four or five 
inches high, half to one and a quarter diameter. Flesh white, that of 
the bulbous part changing slowly to a bluish, but that above to a pinky 
cast. 
Pastures, Edgbaston. August. 
Var. 4. Pileus dark brown: stem rough with scurfy scales pointing upwards. 
Bull. 132, and 489. f. 1 — Schceff. 103 — (Sowerby 175. E.) 
Stem more cylindrical than in the preceding. 
(Sponge Boletus. Purt. Boll, scaher. Bull. Sowerby. Pers. E.) Pas- 
tures, Edgbaston, with the former.f August. 
*Var. 5. Pores white, angular. Pileus brown, scaly and tessellated. 
Picks. 3. 2 — Scop. Ann. iv. 1. 5. 
Pores very white. Pileus dark brown, hard, about two inches over, the 
surface tessellated something like the cone of a fir. Stem thick, three or 
four inches high. Dickson. 
Found by Mr. Lightfoot in woods near Bullstrode, Buckingham. August. 
Bol. sub-squamo'sus. Pores pale brown, oblong: pileus yellowish 
brown, with red brown, scurfy scales: stem brownish, taper. 
Pileus three inches in diameter, the centre hollowed, the edge turned down, 
often splitting in dry weather. Flesh solid, pure white. 
Tubes pale brown, decurrent. 
Stem tapering downwards; brownish below, yellow brown upwards. 
It has the smell of Bol. edulis. 
(Brown Scurfy Boletus. E.) Grows in upland pastures amongst heath 
and furze. Mr. Stackhouse. June* 
Bol. peren'nis. (Linn.) Tubes ochrey brown: pileus flattish, hol¬ 
low in the centre, striated, marked with alternate circles of 
brown and tawny: stem red brown. 
Bol. stipitatus, perennis, pileo utrinque planiusculo. Linn. 
( Sowerby 192. E.)— Bull. 28, coriaceu's. — Schceff. 125 — Bull. 449. 2 — Bolt. 87 
— FI. Dan. 1Q75. 2. 
Tubes decurrent, ochrey yellow brown, not separating from the pileus, ex¬ 
tremely short. Pores round or angular. 
Pileus flattish, hollow in the centre, striated with hairs, marked with alter¬ 
nate circles of brown and tawny; one to one and a half inch over; 
leathery. 
Stem red brown, often eccentric, one inch long, thick as a raven’s quill. 
Bulliard remarks the disposition of the pilei to unite when they happen to 
grow in contact with each other. 
-f* (Mr. Sowerby informs us that the Russians and Poles have many ways of cooking 
and pickling this species, with spices, &c. E.) 
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