European Mycology

Found at the foot of a certain Poplar tree in England. Hand-breadth in width, sub-imbricated overlapping like shingles and lobed. Underneath it is a sordid yellowish color.

10. alba, pulvinate cushion-shaped, smooth, inciso-lobate cut into lobes, white, with oblong sinuses gills or pores forming a labyrinthine pattern. †

Boletus albus. Bolt. Funguss. t. 78.

Found at the roots of poplars in England. The pileus cap is 6 inches wide, and 4 inches from the apex to the base, white, reddish at the base. The sinuses are pale, unequal, round, oblong, some wavy, others narrow. It appears to be related to the preceding species.

11. albida, white, with a thin, sub-glabrous nearly hairless pileus, and sub-elongated angular sinuses. Fries. Syst. I. p. 338. Idem. observ. I. p. 107.

Found on Birches in Sweden. Odorless; when young it is silky, then glabrous and slightly wrinkled, concave underneath; it varies with concolorous zones.

12. saligna, whitish, with a leathery-corky, pubescent hairy, non-zoned pileus, and elongated, narrow, flexuous sinuses. Fries. l. c. p. 337. Batarr. Fung. Arimin. p. 72. t. 38. fig. E and F?

Found on old Willows, in winter. Odorless, imbricated, soft, dilated-reniform kidney-shaped, smooth, and depressed near the strigose covered in stiff hairs margin. Fries.

It grows on Willows, says Batarra of his fungus; it entangles the surrounding grass stems. Above, it is covered with a soft, short, whitish hairiness; it swells into various little hills or tubercles, and underneath it is chalk-colored. It mimics the substance of cork.