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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Boletus. 
pressed it so in his figures. Pileus oblique, lateral, purplish brown, 
wrinkled in circular wavy lines, highly varnished, puckered at top, a wave 
of dirty white at the rim. Pores very minute, dirty white. Stem thick, 
crumpled, colour of the pileus. Mr. Stackhouse. (Whole plant almost 
entirely ligneous, and so hard as to retain its original appearance for half 
a century if exposed to the air; but Mr. Graves has well observed that 
this, and we doubt not some other Fungi, are more liable to the depreda¬ 
tions of insects when confined in glass or wooden cases, than when kept 
without such precaution. E.) 
(Wrinkled Ligneous Boletus. E.) Stumps of trees. Eversden and 
Linton woods, Cambridgeshire. Ditchingham and Brome. Mr. Wood¬ 
ward. Woolhope, Herefordshire. Mr. Stackhouse. July—Sept. 
*Bol. frondc/sus. Tubes white: pileus brown, lobed, tiled: stem 
black at the base, very irregular. 
(Sowerby 87. E.)— FI. Dan. 962—ScJueff. 128. 129— Bolt. 7 6—Barr. 1268. 
Tabes decurrent, white, about one-tenth of an inch long. Pores very small, 
very numerous, circular, or angular, sometimes confluent. 
Pileus pale yellowish brown to deeper cinnamon, leathery, waved, lobed, 
sometimes jagged, lobes tiled one over another, two inches wide, and ra¬ 
ther more in length. 
Stem very irregular and mis-shapen, expanding so as to form the pileus, 
about an inch high, or more, sometimes almost covered with pores, never 
central, black at the base, several together in clusters, near an inch 
broad. Relhan. Dicks. 
(Tiled Boletus. Bol. frondosus. Sowerby. Purt. Dicks. Pers. Bol. ra - 
mosissimus. SchsefF. Bol. elegans. Bolt. E.) 1 saw one at Brome grow¬ 
ing at the bottom of an old tree, which measured nearly two feet across, 
and the tiled lobes next to the tree were more than six inches deep. Mr. 
Woodward. 
Bol. betulAnus. Tubes pure white, very short: pileus pinky brown, 
edge curled in: stem black. 
Bolt. 159— (not Bol. beiulinus, Bull. 312.) 
Tubes very white and short, from one-tenth to one-fiftieth of an inch long. 
Pores very minute; general surface concave. 
Pileus smooth, oblong, convex, curled in at the edge, pinky brown thin, 
flexible, often divided into tongue-shaped lobes. Flesh white, a quarter 
of an inch thick, very thin at the edge. 
Stem lateral, black, one to two inches long, half an inch diameter. 
Whole plant leathery, tough, two to four inches wide, and three to eight 
inches long: looks when growing, and smells, like Ag. ostreatus. The 
tubes do not separate from the pileus except in the older plants ; in the 
young ones I have found it next to impossible to detach them. 
(Short-tubed Leathery Boletus. E.) On the stump of an ash-tree, 
Edgbaston. May. 
Bol. crista'tus. Tubes dirty or ochrey white: pileus golden yellow; 
variously shaped, jagged, curled: stem brown. 
Schoeff. 316, 317. 
Tubes short, not separating: pores irregular. 
Pileus very irregular, mostly hand-shaped and lobed, but jagged, twisted, 
and curled. 
Stem woody, distorted, irregular, thick, porous* 
