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yellow, and slightly ferruginous; stem firm, unequal, golden-
yellow, at length rufous, dotted ahove the fugacious, white,
then yellowish rin g ; pores decurrent, shining, minute, simple,
golden-sulphur.—Grev. t. 183; Kromb. t. 3 4 ./. 1-10; Huss.
ii. /. 13.
In mixed woods. Far less common, and more beautifully
coloured than the last.
3. B. flavus. With.; firm; pileus clothed with yellow evanescent
gluten; stem yellow, then brown, cribrose at the tip
with the decurrent tubes, which are rather large, angular, and
yellow.—Sow. t. 265.
In woods. Common. Requires to he carefully distinguished
from B. luteus.
4. B. laricinus, B . ; pileus dirty-white, with livid stains,
covered at first with dirty-yellow or brownish evanescent
slime, suhsquamose; stem cribrose above the ring, scrohicu-
late below, dirty-white; tubes adnate, snhdecurrent, compound,
at first nearly white.—Huss. i. t. 35.
Amongst larch -trees. Common. Flesh white, very slightly
tinged with yellow.
5. B. grannlatus, L . ; pileus convex, expanded, glutinous,
brown-ferruginous, and when the gluten vanishes yellowish;
stem without any ring, yellowish, punctato-granulose ahove ;
tubes adnate, short, simple, yellow, orifice granulated.—Sow.
t. 420.
In grass, amongst firs. Not common. Dorsetshire, etc.
Often densely gregarious. Orifices of tubes at first dripping
with a milky fluid. Spores ochraceo-ferruginous.
6. B. bovinus, L . ; pileus nearly plane, smooth, viscid,
reddish-grey; stem equal, even, self-coloured; tubes subdecurrent,
angular, compound, greyish-yellow, then ferruginous.
■—Kromb. t. 75. f. 1-6; Huss. i. t. 34.
Heathy fir-woods. Dorsetshire, etc. Gregarious. Pileus
often tinged with purple. Spores nearly yellow. Stem of
the same colour as the pileus, but streaked with watery lines.
7. B. badius, F r . ; pileus soft, pulvinate, viscid, bay-tawny;
stem solid, nearly equal, even, paler, pruinose with brown
meal; flesh turning partially blue; tubes adnate or sinuato-
depressed, rather large, angular, dingy-yellow, white, then
green.—Kromb. t. 36. /. 15.
In pine-woods. Rare. Birmingham, Mr. FI. Matthews.
Pileus viscid in wet, shining in dry weather.
8. B. sanguineus, W ith .; pileus convexo-plane, even,
smooth, viscid, hlood-red; stem equal, even, variegated with
yellow, and hlood-red; tubes adnate, broad, unequal, yellow,
orange.—With. iv. p. 319; Sow. t. 225.
In woods. Rare. I have never found this species. With,
ering says nothing about the viscid pileus.
9. B. piperatus. B u ll.; pileus convexo-plane, smooth,
slightly viscid, yellow, inclining to reddish-grey; stem slen,
der, even, brittle, yellow within and at the base; tubes sub,
decurrent, large, angular, ferruginous.—Sow. t. 34.
In woods. Not very common. Smaller than any of the
foregoing. Taste hot and peppery.
** Pileus more or less tomentose,
10. B. parasiticus. Bull.; parasitic; pileus hemispherical,
slightly silky, dirty-yellow, as well as the incurved, rigid
stem; tubes decurrent, middle-sized, rounded, compound,
golden-yellow. (Plate 15, fig. 4.)
On species of Elaphomyces. Rare. Clifton, C. E. B. Abun,
dant in Kew Gardens, 1859. Pileus often cracked. Flesh
yellow, becoming ruddy when dry, Not at all viscid.
11. B. variegatus, F r ,; pileus convexo-plane, obtuse.
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