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Boletus proteus Hist. 166.

Variable Boletus. in its last stage.

Boletus fragilis

On stocks of old Trees in shady places
near Rivulets, This specimen I gathered from
Mills, where the Plant has remained for several
years without much apparent increase or
decay. It grows in detached pieces from one
to nine Inches diameter. They are elegantly
lobed, sinuated & imbricated about the margin,
which parts only are detached from the Tree, all
the flat part adhering pretty firmly to the Bark,
The Pores invisible. The substance hard & brittle.

July, 1786
        