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Boletus elegans. Hist. 76
Elegant Boletus.

This most elegant and grand Boletus
was discovered by my son Jack. in the cavity
of an old Elm Root, below the surface of the
ground in the bottom of Cross Field Halifax
July the 28th, 1786.

It grew upright from the top of an erect
piece of decaying wood within the cavity,
'Tis lobed at the extremity in a very elegant
manner, the Lobes are rounded, imbricate, the thickness
of ones Tongue, when pressed between the
Fingers firm & elastic. Pores round, very
minute and of a pale sulphury hue.

Flesh of the Pileus white, easily tears in
fine filaments like Muscular Fibres from
the verge of the Pileus to the very Root. -
in drying becomes hard tough black and
Leathery.
        