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Boletus calceolus. Hist 168.

Slipper Boletus. an old specimen

This Boletus grew on the stock of
a Beech Tree near Bramham in march 1785.

The stem is inverted in one side of the
Pileus, the sustance firm elastic and very
tough, of a dead yellow colour [color] within, and resists
the Knife like tann'd [tanned] leather.

The pores are much too small for our
inspection, seen in Nairn's double magnifier
they appear round regular & Distinct
        