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GENUS II. BOLETUS. 87
BOLETUS flipitatus, pileo flavofubtomentofo, pons fubangulatis CI.
deformans fulvis plants, fiipitefiavo. Sp. PI. 1647. Poll- /«btmentofis.
porus came fecedente petiolatus, pileo villofo cervino pons
albidis. Hall.. Hiß, 2311. Fungus porojus tenuis conaceus.
Buxbaum Cent. 5. <T. 15. Fig. 1.
W O O L L Y BOLETUS.
t a b . lxxxvii.
' - p H I S p r e t t y Boletus has an hard compreffed root, emitting
numerous black fibres.-
The item is of a reddiih brown, an inch or an inch and a
half high, often compreffed or fulcated, and of a tough,, hard,
dry, leathery fubitance.
The pores are fmall and angülated, but not of equal figure;
their margins are jagged or lafciniated, and of equal height,,
which gives an appearance of woollinefs to the underfide of the
pileus: the colour is a bright fulvous brown. The tubes, ß/B.
are about a line and half in length, and conftitute almoft the
whole thicknefs of the, pileus; they a're tough, and firmly
united together by their whole length. They are: reprefented.
at A . as they appeared when a little magnified..
The pileus or coat, to which the tubes are affixed, is very
thin, m at B. of a tough, hard,: vellumy fubitance j of a fulvous
brown on the upper fide, and appears to the eye as if covered
with ihort filky filaments clofely combed down, from the
centre to the margin ; but which, in fa£t,, are rather fine almost
imperceptible firia, infeparable from the furface : the margin is
ciliated with brown hairs,, and the furface marked, with tour or.
five concentric ftripes of a darker colour..
It is a rare plant here. The fpecimens from which this de~
fcription and thefe figures are taken, grew in Robin Hood's Scar,,
in Southowram, near. Halifax,, in beptemher, 1784,