CRYPTO GAM I A. FUNGI. Boletus. 
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(Golden Distorted Boletus. E.) First observed as a British species 
by Dickson, growing on trunks of trees ; he tells us it sometimes attains 
the height of two feet. Dicks. Fasc. iii. 21. 
(2) Tubes yellowish. 
Bol. squamo'sus. Tubes yellow white; pores large, angular: pileus 
pale buff, pencilled with feather-like scales. 
(Hook. FI. Lond.—Sowerby 266. E.)— FI. Dan. (1196. E.) and also 893 
— Schcejf. 101 and 102— Bull. 19. 114— Bolt. 77 —Batsch 41— Sterb. 13. 
and possibly 14. 
Tubes short, nearly white, slanting. Pores large, whitish, angular, varying 
much in size. 
Pileus pale buff, adorned with feather-like scales of a deeper dye, sometimes 
with a tinge of red, semi-circular, or fan-shaped, from five to fourteen 
inches over. Flesh white, firm, elastic. 
Stem lateral, dark-coloured, white within, from one to two inches long, and 
as much in breadth. 
It has a rank fungous smell, and is apt to abound with maggots. (Mr. 
Hopkirk mentions a plant of this species, growing on an ash tree, which 
attained the size of seven feet five inches in circumference, and weighed 
thirty-four pounds. It was only four weeks in gaining the above size ; 
thus acquiring in weight above one pound three ounces each day. Hook. 
FI. Scot. 
Scaly Boletus. Bol. squamosus. Sowerby. Bolt. Hook. Purt. Bol. poly-, 
morphus. Bull. Bol. juglandis. Bull. SchsefF. De Cand. Bol. sub- 
squamosus. Batsch. Bol. platyporus. Pers. E.) On the stumps of 
various kinds of trees; much crowded together. In the rick-yard, Edg- 
baston, on the stump of an ash. June. 
Var, rangiferinus. Pores yellowish : pileus dirty yellow : stem dark 
brown, branched. 
(Hook. FI. Lond. E.)— Phil. Trans. Abr. x. pi. 20. f. 109. at p. 705 — 
Blackst. frontispiece — Bolt. 138. 
Tubes decurrent, dirty yellow, ragged at the extremity. 
Pileus an expansion of the stem, dirty yellow, oblong, about two inches 
by one and a half. 
Stem dark brown, one and a half to three inches high, thick as a swan’s 
quill, often with one or more lateral branches, splitting at the end into 
several horn-shaped branches, with yellow tops, or else expanding into 
the pileus. Root a congeries of brown substances as large as hazle nuts. 
Bolton. The whole plant bears a resemblance to the palmated branching 
horns of the larger species of deer. Professor Martyn, who first published 
an account of it, says that his plant was two feet high. It was of a dusky 
red colour, inclining to black ; the pores and the tips of the horns of a 
cream colour. 
Both Martyn’s and Bolton’s plants were found affixed to a log of wood in 
a cellar. 
(Bol. rangiferinus. With. Dr. Hooker, in his beautiful new series of the 
Flora Londinensis, satisfactorily proves this curious fungus to be properly 
a variety of Bol. squamosus. He considers it the same with Bol. juglandis 
of Bulliard and SchaefF. also Bol. polymorphus of Bulliard. 
These plants can seldom be eaten with impunity, E.) 
