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 TAB. LXXXVI.

Bull. tab. 366. grown annually for some years on the same stumps in Kensington gardens, often of very large dimensions. When fresh, it is easily bruifed, at first turning red, afterwards nearly black. It occasionally grows thinner, and divides something like Boletus acanthoides of Bulliard. The pileus is finely squamote; the pores minute, and seldom deep; their ends are somewhat spongy. TAB. LXXXVII.

Dicks. Crypt. fasc. 1. p. 18.

found growing in very large clusters beautifully branching and reuniting, forming lateral ramifications in a very curious manner. The top or pileus is generally of a greyish brown; the sides lighter; the pores and inner substance very white. TAB. LXXXVIII. be found on old or rotting elms (ulmus campestris) thriving in damp weather most part of the year. It is a very solid, tough, unshapen mass, often very large, commonly attached by the back so as only to shew the edge of the rugged pileus. The pores are very fine, frequently in many strata under each other of various length. I have a large specimen from a cellar, found in an angle between two brick walls without any signs of wood being near. The moisture ousing from the wall must be very powerfully saturated with the vegetable matter to form so dense a substance; and if some beam was the cause, the bricks must have filtered it to a nicety, which is another proof of the subtilty