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specimens. If a true Boletus it is nearest the section Viscipelles 

 and the pileus is probably viscid when fresh though the dried speci- 

 mens seen do not show this character, nor do the notes accom- 

 panying them speak of it. The annulus is slight and whitish. 



Bqletinus castanellus 



Pileus convex or nearly plane, dry, subtomentose, soft, spongy, 



dark chestnut, flesh whitish or yellowish white ; tubes nearly plane 



in the mass, adnate or slightly decurrent, brown, their mouths 



large, angular ; stem short, solid, glabrous, colored like the pileus, 



whitish or grayish within, slightly reticulate at the top ; spores 



7.5-10/* long, about 5 fi broad. 



Pileus 2.5-4 cm. broad; stem about 2.5 cm. long, 4-8 mm. 

 thick. 



Woods. New Jersey. September. E. B. Sterling. 



