1788 - Bolton, James - History of Fungusses growing about Halifax

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Approximate location of Robin Hood's Scar.

Strollers in Elland Park Wood, early 1900's postcard / Scanned by David Greaves for Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion.

The fungus boletus stipitatus or 'woolly boletus', which James Bolton found growing on Robin Hood's Scar.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2016-12-10. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2021-01-07.

Allusion

It [sc. woolly boletus] is a rare plant here. The specimen from which this description and these figures are taken, grew in Robin Hood's Scar, in Southowram, near Halifax, in September, 1784.

Source notes

Italics as in printed source.

IRHB comments

In 1797 a German translation of Bolton's book was published (see Sources section below). It is a classic in British mycology.

Lists

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-11.
• Outside scope of Sussex, Lucy, compil. 'References to Robin Hood up to 1600', in: Knight, Stephen. Robin Hood: A Complete Study of the English Outlaw (Oxford, UK; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell, 1994), pp. 262-88.

Sources

• Bolton, James. An History of Fungusses, Growing about Halifax (Halifax; London; Oxford; Cambridge; York; Edinburgh; Huddersfield; Leeds, 1788-91), p. 87 and plate 87.
• Bolton, Jacob; Willdenow, Carl Ludwig, transl. Jacob Boltons Geschichte der Merkwürdigsten Pilze (Berlin, 1797), p. 65.

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