
          (161.)

Boletus auricularius. Hist. 82
Ear like Boletus. Young Specimens.

B. resupinatus.

This Plant is placed amongst
the H<s>a</s>elvellas By Mr. Hudson in his Flora
Anglica, and by the Revd. [Reverend] Mr. Relhan
in his Flora Cantabrigensis, Bulliard
in his Champignon de la France makes
a new genus of it, which he calls Auricularia
and has figured it in tw<s>a</s>o stages of
growth as distinct species.

The whole habit figure texture and every
thing about it say it is a boletus, and
if not a barren variety of boletus versicolor,
we must believe that the fructification
is lodged under the wooly covering on the
supine dish of the plant. I have therefore
for the present named it resupinatus.
        