86 AN HISTORY OF FUNGUSSES.
C. BOLETUS Jlipitatus, pileo parvo convexo glabra, ports tenuijjimis
procerus. numerojis albidis, Jlipite longo medio crajfo.
T A L L B O L E T U S .
T A B. LXXXVI.
/HpHE root confiiis of numerous fibres, iiTuing from the bafe
of the item. The Item is obtufely pointed at the bafe,
from whence the lower part greatly increafes in thicknefs, for
the fpace of an inch or two, and then gradually decreafes again
to the top. The colour is a pale duiky olive; the fubftancehard
and brittle the height five or fix inches.
The pileus is at firft globular, afterwards becomes femioval,
or highly convex; the iurface is fmooth, dry, and to the touch
feels like fine cloth j it is of a pale duiky olive colour; the
fleih white and brittle. The tubes are cylindrical, very fine and
white j the pores white, and fo minute as not to be difcerned
by the naked eye. In decay the whole turns to a dirty brown,
and dilfolves in a turbid gelly.
This is "a rare fpecies; the fpecimens here figured, I gathered
in Woodhoufe-Wood, and I have feen the plant in feveral
other places about Halifax.
I find no deicription or figure which agrees exadtly with this
plant. Is it a naked variety of the Fungus cincerce forrnce, Artichoke
muihroom, of PARKINSON, P. 1324. No. 25. which
he fays grows at Ripton, near AJhford, on Bromley-Green, &c.
and which is well figured by my ingenious friend DICKSON, in
his Pl. Crypt. Fas. 1. T. 2. F. 2?—1 have fometimes obferved
a faint refemblance of fcalinefs on the item of my plant, but
the pileus is conilantly fmooth from firil to laiL