Stem not attached to the centre of the cap and fruit-body although persistent not easily revived to natural shape after once being dried 48 48. Spore-print blue-black with solutions containing iodine 49 Spore-print yellowish in solutions containing iodine 50 49. Gills toothed or notched along the edges _Lentinellus_ Gills even along their edges and not toothed _Panellus_ 50. Gills appearing as if split down their middles _Schizophyllum_ Gills not splitting 51 51. Gills notched or toothed along their edges _Lentinus_ Gills even along their edges and not toothed _Panus_ 52. Spore print yellowish, purplish, black or pink 53 Spore-print some shade of brown, but without purplish flush 56 53. Spore-print yellowish or pinkish 54 Spore-print purplish brown or blackish 55 54. Spore-print yellowish _Gyroporus_ Spore-print pinkish _Tylopilus_ 55. Spore-print purplish brown _Porphyrellus_ Spore-print blackish and spores ornamented _Strobilomyces_ 56. Cap glutinous and stem with or without girdling veil (ring); within the tubes the sterile cells (cystidia) cluster together _Suillus_ Cap at most viscid and then only in wet weather and sterile cells within the tubes individually placed 57 57. Stem-surface covered with distinct black or dark brown or white then darkening scales; spore-print clay-brown with or without a flush of cinnamon-pinkish brown _Leccinum_ Stem-surface covered completely or in part with a network or pattern of faint lines or pale yellow or red-rust but never black dots; spore-print olivaceous buff _Boletus_ & related genera (i) Agarics of woodlands and copses (a) Mycorrhizal formers ~Leccinum scabrum~ (Fries) S. F. Gray Birch rough stalks or Brown birch-bolete. _Cap_: width 45-150 mm. _Stem_: length 70-200 mm; width 20-30 mm. _Description_: Plate 1. Cap: convex and becoming only slightly expanded at maturity, pale brown, tan or buff, soft, surface dry, but in wet weather becoming quite tacky, smooth or streaky-wrinkled and cap-margin not overhanging the tubes. Stem: white, buff or greyish, roughened by scurfy scales which are minute, pale and arranged in irregular lines at the stem-apex, and enlarged and dark brown to blackish towards the base.