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 The fibrous root in A. latus is often remarkable and conspicuous; taste insipid, leaving an unpleasant sensation in the throat. I suspect this to be A. cervinus, Schæaff. t. 10, and leoninus, t. 48, of the same author. TAB. CIX. With. ed. 3. v. 4. 302.

Lightf. 1030.

Bull t. 140. & t. 557 f. 1.

frequent on cut stumps of oaks, &;c. in the beginning of the autumnal season, resembling lightish tanned leather. If dry weather continually occurs it will become very dry, white, and scurfy; if wet, commonly of a deep tan colour all over. The autumnal plants may be found in the following spring, in their latter Hate, giving it somewhat a new appearance; but the stipes is so strongly characterised by spreading towards the lamellæ, it can never be mistaken when once known; not to mention the beautiful ramifying of the lamellæae, which seems to have been overlooked. Is not this A. lateralis of Hudson? TAB. CX.

Bull. t. 236 &t. 489. With. ed. 3. v. 4. 312.

woods not unfrequent, generally growing separately, and often very large. I found some in Peckham Wood in the autumn of 1795, eight inches high, and the pileus nearly as much in diameter; the latter being somewhat conical, and in colour giving an idea of the red calx of iron, or crocus martis. Its surface is a little rough, and the margin hangs a little over the edges below the pores, which are always pale brown, not attached, but rounded off at the base from the stipes, which is roughly covered with dark brown powder in irregular reticulations. It is cylindrical, but smallest at the top. May not Boletus procerus of some authors belong to this in a young state? I have some models of varieties which seem to confirm such an idea.