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CRYPTOGAMIA. FUNGI. Boletus. 
long, three inches broad, thin at the edge, and waved, one and a half inch 
thick at the base. 
Hedge banks, Edgbaston, fixed to half decayed wood. July. 
The specimens I have seen were larger than those figured and described by 
Bolton; the margins were lobed and waved, but not with so much ele¬ 
gance. Bolton’s figure being taken from a small plant, it might grow 
with more regularity. Mr. Woodward. 
Ditchingham near Bungay, and Diss, Norfolk. Woodward. 
Bol. suave'olens. (Linn.) Tubes very long, white changing to 
tawny: pileus smooth, semi-circular, white or tawny: flesh 
yellow brown. Bull. 
Bol. acaulis , superne Icevis, salicinus. Linn. 
Bull. 310— Walc.n. 4. B. suherosus. 
Tubes at first whitish, changing to straw-colour, and then to tawny, espe¬ 
cially at the ends, half an inch long or more in large specimens. Pores 
irregular. 
Pileus at first white, tawny, brownish and marked with concentric circles 
as it grows old. Flesh white or yellowish, compact, like cork. Diameter 
from two to five inches or more. Its odour penetrating and agreeable, 
but it loses this with age, and even in the younger plants when thin it is 
not always perceptible. Bulliard. 
Sometimes growing tiled one above another to a very large size. Pileus 
frequently tinged with orange. Bol. albus of Hudson is thicker at the 
base and more regular in its figure. Mr. Woodward. In its young state 
the whole outside of the plant is perfectly white. (Not very distinct 
from Bol. labyrinthiformis. Purt. 
Sweet-scented Boletus. Bol. suaveolens. Bull. Purt. JDcedalea suaveo- 
lens. Pers. E.) Bol. discoideus . Dicks. On the trunks of willow trees, in 
autumn, not uncommon; continuing about a year. On old oaks and 
other trees, frequent. Mr. Woodward.f 
Bol. spongio'sus. (Lightf.) Pores whitish, fringed, angular: pileus 
brown, woolly. 
Battar. 33. B, E, F, G. — Clus. ii. 265. 2— J. B. iii. 831.2. 
Sessile, horizontal, semi-circular, convex, sometimes as large as a peck mea¬ 
sure. Lightfoot. Very elegant when young, turning quite black when 
old. Seeds when ripe falling out in form of a yellow powder, and when 
examined appearing fastened to a slender hair-like thread, like the beads 
of a necklace. These filaments often hang down, forming festoons, from 
the under surface of the pileus. Mr. Woodward. 
(Sponge-like Fringed Boletus. E.) Trunks of trees. Mostly on elms, 
and often exceeding the trunk of the tree in diameter. Mr. Woodward. 
*Bol. la'chrymans. Porous, surface very unequal, forming various 
reticulations and sinuses. 
(Sowerby 113. E.)— Jacq.Misc. ii. 8. 2. 
1* (This is one of the species which might probably be referred to the new genus 
Dagdalea, of Persoon ; exhibiting sinuous or oblong apertures beneath, and intermediate 
between Merulius and Boletus, but not always strictly defined. The scent of this plant 
has been compared to that of anniseeds ; it is occasionally used as a perfume by northern 
beaus. E.) 
