So AN HISTORY OF FUNGUSSES.
x c i i i . BOLETUS acaulis puhinatus lavis, poris tenuißmis. Sp. PL
jgmarw. 1645. Hudfin Angl. 625. Poliporus convexo-planus durifßmus
cinnereus, infern albidus. Hall. Hiß. 2288. Agaricus
pedis equinifacie, Tourn Inß. P. 562. T. 330. Fig. A, B.
Battarra, T. 37. E. Agaric um igniarium, agarici officinalis
facie. Mich. Gen. P. 118. T. 61. Fig. 1. Boletus
ungulatus fulvus et variegatus. Schaf. Fung. 137, 138.
Fungus durus igniarius. Park, 1323.
TOUCHWOOD -BOLETUS, Spunk.
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n p H I S grows horizontally, from the fides of trees; its fir ft
appearance is in form of a convex tubercle, the fize of a
pea j it is then of a foft and yielding fubftance, and of a .yellow
colour: this globular or convex figure it retains, till it acquires
the fize of a fmall wilding apple or crab ; it is now more firm,
of a darker colour without, but ftill yellow within; and the
tubes are not yet formed: as it advances in growth the bafe
fpreads laterally, a margin begins to projedt, and the tubes begin
to grow on the underfide; they are fo very fine and- clofe,
that the pores cannot be difcerned by the naked e y ewhi l e freih
they are of a yellowiih colour. The upper furface is of various
colours, fometimes difpofed in concentric circles, grey, brown,
duiky, &c. The circles a little elevated, and the margin very
blunt.
• When the plant is full grown, the tubes are near half an
inch in length, of a reddiih brown colour, and an hard, dry,
woody fubftance, as is the whole plant; it is perennial, growing
and increafing from year to year.
This fpecimen grew on the ftock of a cherry tree, in
Southowram, near Halifax.
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