This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...AESTIVALIS; The Summer Bolet. Habitat. In pastures and parks near copses; in woodlands. Solitary. Season. May to August. Tolerably common. Pileus. Four to eight inches across, grey, grey-brown, umber, soft, silky, becoming rivulose and granulate; convex, then expanding, pulvinate, unequally plane. Stem ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...AESTIVALIS; The Summer Bolet. Habitat. In pastures and parks near copses; in woodlands. Solitary. Season. May to August. Tolerably common. Pileus. Four to eight inches across, grey, grey-brown, umber, soft, silky, becoming rivulose and granulate; convex, then expanding, pulvinate, unequally plane. Stem. Two to five inches high, dingy white, stout, firm, even, smooth, incrassate below, naked. Pores. Pallid-white, yellow, lastly greenish. Section. Flesh white, soft, unchanging. Stem solid. Tubes pallid, then greenish, elongate, cylindrical, minute, even. Odour faint. Taste sweet and nutty. Spores greenish-brown. 06t. One of the largest and best in quality of the genus. In chapter vii.--W. D. H. (156.) BOLETUS BADIUS; The Bay Bolet. Habitat. On high ground in woods of fir and pine. Solitary. Season. August to October. Rare. Pileus. Some two inches across, bay-tawny, soft, polished, viscid in wet, smooth; convex, pulvinate, rounded. Stem. One to two inches high, pale bay, farinose, nearly even, sub-attenuate, not bulbous, smooth, naked. Pores. Pale yellow, becoming greenish. Section. Flesh pallid, slightly blueing on exposure, soft, thick, stem solid. Tubes large, angular, sinuate, depressed, adnate, yellow-green. Odour feeble. Taste good. Spores 'dingy green. Obs. Not well known, but it is eaten abroad and is quite wholesome.--W. D. B. (157.) BOLETUS BOVINUS; The Ox Bolet. Habitat. Heathy woods of fir and pine. In groups. Season. September and October. Not uncommon. Pileus. One to three inches across, dusky, red-brown, or tawnybuff, smooth, glossy, viscid in wet; rounded, then convex, pulvinate, expanding, undulate. Margin incurved, at first white and tomentose, soon yellow and glutinous. Stem. Two to three inches high, tint of pileus, ...
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