TAB. CCXXVI.
BOLETUS albidus. Schæf. tab. 124.
A very tender species. When fresh, it cannot be touched, however gently, without shewing the bruise, by immediately turning bruise. The Rev. Mr. Hemsted has sent it me several times from the neighbourhood of Newmarket, and I have found it on the Croydon road, and at Hainault forest. It seldom produces good specimens, and is frequently indistinct, as exhibited in Schaæffer's figures. The pores are small, and sometimes irregular.
TAB. CCXXVII.
BOLETUS salicinus. Bull. t. 433. fig. i.
BOLETUS albus. Huds. 626.
This mostly inhabits the upper part of old willow stumps, while the Boletus suaveoleus seems to grow on the lower part. I cannot very readily distinguish between them. The upper plants grow more separate and regular, with short tubes and small pores. The whole at first beautifully white, afterwards becomes yellowish, and lastly of a browner hue.
TAB. CCXXVIII.
BOLETUS suaveeolus. Linn. Enssin. diff. t. 6. p.b 32.
I do not know any other figure of this plant than the above. Bulliard, tab. 310, surely represents A. guercinus of this work, tab. 181, variety Boletiformis Our plant, as observed in the last paragraph, grows generally at the bottom of decaying willows, commonly tiled with much irregularity. The tubes are generally short, but both they and the pores are irregular, commonly mixed with grafs and other herbage. When fresh it is very white, and changes but little, as infects sooner
