
          
(226.)

Boletus proteus. Hist. 166.

Variable Boletus

This B. proteus makes such terrible
havock amongst the Aurculariae, the
Merula & Helvella of Writers, that is
is almost dangerous to relate plain facts
under such circumstances.  Whatever
other may have seen or written I could
never discover any kind of fructification,
no pores, tubercles or anything that could
indicate a possibility of producing seeds
till I found the cells or pores in the specimen
marked b. in the Drawing, a portion of
which is magnified at, c.-- as in Hist
p. 166.
        