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PLcelLaph. 11. HYMENOTHECE^. 276. Leccin. 647
2. Leccimim scahrum. Rough Icccino.
Stem slender, scales blackish ; cap rather wrinkled,
opake, smoke-grey ; pores pale white, depressed round
the stem.
Boletus scalier, Soicerby, 175; Persoun Syn. 505,
In beech woods; autumn.
Esculent; pickled by the Russians and Poles.
3. Leccimim lactifluum. Milk-yielding leccino.
Stem pale-yellow; cap reddish-bufF, thick, convex, glutinous,
flesh-white ; tubes yellow, filled with a milklikc
juice.
Boletus lactifluus, Withering Arr. 4, 355; Persoon Syn. 506.
In parks.
4. Leccinum subtomentosum. Rather-woolly leccino.
Tlialliis middle-size ; stem rather slender, reddish in the
middle, or imiformly yellowish ; cap cushionlike, planoconvex,
rather woolly, reddish or greyish-yellow ; flesh
scarcely altering ;
pores large.
Boletus subtomentosus, Lin. S. P, 1647 ;
In woods ; autumn.
Pcrsoon Syn, 507.
5. Leccinum piperatuin. Pepper leccino-
Stem yellow at bottom and in the inside; cap rather
thick, cushionlike, bent, cinnamon; pores large, convex,
rust-red.
Boletus piperatus, SoicecJi/ Fungi, 34; Persoon Syn. 501.
In woods.
Taste acrid and burning, like capsicum.
6. Leccinum cojistrictum. Bound lecci?io.
Stem smooth, bellied, greyish-white at top ; cap broad,
greyish ; flesh bluish ; pores white.
Boletus cyanescens. Bull. Champ. 319 ;
Boletus constrictus, Persoon Syn. 508.
In gardens.
IVithering Arr. 4, 345.
7. L^eccinum edule. Ratable leccino.
Stem tuberous, rather bellied, greyish-red, with network;
cap cushionlike;, very wide, brownish-red; flesh not
changing colour ; pores at first stuffed, whitish, grow yellow.
Boletus edulis, Bull. Herb. 494; Persoon Syn. 510.
In woods and heaths; autumn.
Taste gratefiil, like that of the cocoa-nut.