&4 AN HISTORY OF FUNGUSS ES.
Such as are fupported on a central ßeni.
xcrai. BOLETUS ftipitatus, pileo pulvinato fubvifcido, poris rotundalls
¡mm. convexis flaviffimis, ftipite albido. Sp. PI. 1647. Hud/on
•Angl. 627. Schaf. Fung. T. 103. Ceriomyces pileo for*
mcato; Battarra, T. 29. Fig. C. Boletus luteus. Dillen.
C.Giß. T. 10. No. 1. Fungus porofus autumnalis vifcidus.
Buxbaum, Cent. 5. T. IJ Fungus ranarum. St erb.
T. 17. L M. Hedwig Crypt. T. 36. Fig. 210.
Y E L L O W BOLETU S.
T A B . LXXXIV.
/ T AHE root confiils of a tuft of dawny fibres,, iffuing from
the bafe of the item, by means whereof the plant adheres
firmly to the ground.
Theftemis folid, fpongy, generally largeft near the root
and three or four inches high ; the colour is variable, in fome*
ipecimens of a pale, in others of a deep yellow ; fometimes
olive-coloured, or duiky; in full grown plants frequently
itrongly tinged with a fine-bright crimfon or blood colour, on
tfie upper part, which is loft, on the lower, where it becomes
duiky or brown, olive, ftraw colour, ¿>r green.
The curtain, is of an extremely tender and delicate texture,,
and vaniihes almoit as.ibon as the rim of the pileus feparates^
from the item; fometimes, however, I have feen it in plants of
an advanced growth, as is exprefied in the plate. The tubes
are cylindrical, longeit in the middle, where they adhere to the
ftem by their fides. The pores are round, and of a bright yellow,
turning to a dirty green in decay.
The pileus is cuihion-ihaped, at firft glutinous and yellow,
changing in its progrefs to olive, duiky brown, and various
other hues; the fleih, is of a pale yellow, thick, brittle and
.fpongy.
Grows in, woods about the roots of trees, in July and
Auguft; . it is the moil early of the autumnal Fungi.
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