
          
(185.)

Boletus rengiferinus. Hist. 138.
Rein-deer Boletus.

This very rare plant was first
Figured by Sterbeek in Theatrum Fungorum,
Tab, 29. f B. But he, like the Artists
of his times, added so much of his own 
fancy, that one might almost think 
he had been dreaming about the nine
Muses.--I make no doubt of his plant
being the same as ours.  I believe it
to be the same plant figured in Oeder Fils-
Dan, Tab 405. and named Fucus digitatus,
andby Ballarra A Tab. 24, but the best
figure formerly given is by Blackstone
in  Specimen Botanicum Tab. 1. --

My plant grew on a Log of Wood in the
Cellar of a Publick house in Leeds. in
October 1788.
        