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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Boletus. 
Stem short, small, wiry. Pileus very thin at the edge, chocolate colour 
when young, with a greenish cast when old. Pores irregular, small, 
snuff-coloured. The whole plant is leathery or woody, and frequently 
comes up so thick that the pilei run into one another. Mr. Stackhouse. 
(Perennial Boletus. BoL perennis. Huds. Pers. Purt. Bo 1. subtomen - 
tosiLs . Bolt. E.) Dean and Chapter Grove, Hereford, on old charcoal 
pits. Common hill wood, Fownhope. Mr. Stackhouse. 
Var. 2. Tubes, pileus, and stem cinnamon-colour. 
Bull. 254— Jacq. Coll. 1. t. 2. 
Wholly cinnamon-coloured within and without. 
Tubes decurrent. Pores angular. 
Pileus flat convex, striated, thin, hollow in the centre, one inch over, soft and 
silky to the touch. 
Stem woolly, an inch high, and as thick as a crow quill. 
Pileus thin, woolly, marked with zones ; very brittle when dry. Dickson. 
(Bol. fimbriatus. Bull. E.) Bol. cinnamomeus. Jacq. First found in this 
kingdom by Mr. Dickson, but given to us with no other habitat than the 
general one of—pastures. 
*Bol. sub-tomento'sus. (Linn.) Pores tawny, rather angular, of 
different shapes: pileus yellow, somewhat woolly : stem yellow. 
Bol. stipitatus , pileo Jlavo sub-tomentoso } poris suh-angulatis diffbrmibus 
fulvis planisj stipite Jlavo. Linn. 
Mich. 68. 2. 
Pileus convex, fleshy, by no means smooth or clammy: sharp at the edge. 
Pores with blunt angles, the ends forming a plano-concave surface. Stem 
smoothish. FI. Suec.—This is introduced on the authority of Hudson, 
who refers to Schaeff. t. 121, with yellowish white pores, and a whitish 
stem. 
(Woolly Boletus. E.) In woods near Esher, Surrey. Huds. 
Sept.—Oct. 
Bol. rubeola'rius. (Bull.) Tubes olive-colour; pores rich red 
brown: pileus and stem red cinnamon. 
( Grev . Scot. Crypt. 121— Sowerby 250. E.)— Bull. 100 andi<90. 1— 
Schceff. 107. 
TuWes olive colour, fixed to the stem. Pores rich red brown, variously 
shaped, but mostly oval. 
Pileus red cinnamon, convex, soft to the touch and rather clammy. Flesh 
thick, spongy, buff colour, instantly turning blue when wounded. 
Stem red cinnamon and bulbous below, yellow, reddish, and cylindrical 
above; spongy within and rich yellow, but instantly changing to a blue; 
two and a half to three inches high, three quarters to one and a quarter 
diameter. 
(One of the handsomest of its kind. E.) In its young state the pores are 
crimson, and the centre of the pileus of a chocolate colour. 
(Carmine Boletus. Bol. rubeolarius. Sowerby. Pers. Purt. Bol. luridus . 
Schseff. Pers. Grev. E.) Edgbaston park, under Spanish chesnut trees. 
Aug.t 
+ (Poisonous; at least to dogs. Grev. and considered generally deleterious by the 
older writers, by whom it wag designated Suilhts perniciosue. E.) 
