Part 3, 1910] BOLETACEAE 159 
TYPE LOCALITY: North Elba, New York. 
HABITAT: Wet places, usually among moss. 
DISTRIBUTION: Ontario to New Jersey. 
ILLUSTRATION: Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Cab. 23: pl. 6, f. 4-7. 
EXSICCATI: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 7932; Ellis, Ev. & Barth. Fungi Columb. 2307. 
11. BOLETINUS Kalchb. Ic. Hymen. Hung. 52. 1877. 
Luryporus Quél Ench. Fung. 163. 1886. 
Boletopsis P, Henn. in E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 1**: 194, 1899, 
Hymenophore annual, terrestrial or rarely epixylous, centrally stipitate; surface dry, 
minutely silky to fibrillose or squamose: context whitish or yellowish, fleshy or spongy ; 
tubes large, shallow, elongate, tough, not easily separating, radiately arranged, adnate or 
slightly decurrent, yellowish, covered with a veil: spores elongate, smooth, yellowish- 
brown to purplish-brown, sometimes with greenish tints: stipe more or less annulate, 
spongy or hollow within. 
Type species, Boletus cavipes Opat. 
Stipe hollow; pileus tawny-brown, fibrillose-squamulose. 1. B. cavipes. 
Stipe solid. 
Pileus whitish or grayish, slightly squamulose. 2. B. grisellus, 
Pileus yellow or yellowish. 
Pileus 9 cm. or less broad. 3. B. Berkeleyt. 
Pileus 10 cm. or more broad. 4. B. appendiculatus. 
Pileus red or reddish, conspicuously squamose. 
Spores purplish-brown; scales scattered. 5. B. spectabilts, 
Spores ochraceous-brown ; scales dense. 6. B. pictus. 
1. Boletinus cavipes (Opat.) Kalchb. Ic. Hymen. 
Hung. 52. 1877. 
Boletus cavipes Opat. Comm. Bolet.11. 1836. 
Boletus ampliporus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 26: 67. 1874. (Type from New York.) 
Pileus broadly convex, rather tough, flexible, usually subumbonate, 3.5-10 cm. broad ; 
surface soft, fibrillose-squamulose, tawny-brown, sometimes tinged with reddish or pur- 
plish: context thin, yellowish ; tubes slightly decurrent, pale-yellow when young, darker 
and tinged with green at maturity, becoming dingy-ochraceous with age: spores ellipsoid, 
olivaceous when fresh, changing later to yellowish-ochraceous, 7.5-10 <4: stipe equal 
or slightly tapering upward, slightly fibrillose or floccose, tawny-brown or yellowish-brown, 
yellowish at the apex, hollow within, sometimes stuffed when young, 3.5-7 em. long, 6-12 
mim. thick; veil white, evanescent, partly adhering to the margin of the pileus and partly 
to the stipe in the form of a delicate annulus. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Hungary. 
HaBitaT: Swamps or damp mossy places. 
DISTRIBUTION : New England and New York ; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Kalchb. Ic. Hymen. Hung. £/. 312; Gill, Champ. Fr. pl. 52. 
2. Boletinus grisellus Peck, Mem. N. Y. State Mus. 3: 169. 1900. 
Pileus convex to nearly plane, 3-7 cm. broad; surface dry, slightly fibrillose-squamu- 
lose, whitish or grayish, sometimes tinged with yellow: context white, unchanging; tubes 
adnate or slightly decurrent, grayish, becoming brownish with age, mouths rather large 
and angular: spores oblong or ellipsoid, ferruginous-brown, 7.5-10 X4-5 uw: stipe equal or 
slightly tapering upward, whitish or pallid, slightly reticulate at the apex by the decurrent 
walls of the tubes, 2.5-5 cm. long, 0.5~1 cm. thick; veil in young plants slight, webby or 
fibrillose, soon disappearing. 
TypE Locality: Natick, Massachusetts. 
HABITAT: Under or near tamarack trees. 
DISTRIBUTION: Massachusetts. 
ILLUSTRATION : Mem. N. Y. State Mus. 3: pl. 52, f. 13-19. 
3. Boletinus Berkeleyi Murrill, Mycologia 1: 6. 1909. 
Boletus decipiens Berk. & Curt. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. II. 12: 430. 1853. Not B. decipiens Schrad. 
1794 
Boletinus decipiens Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus, 8: 78. 1889. 
Pileus convex above, nearly plane below, becoming somewhat irregular on expanding, 
7-9 cm. broad, about 3 cm. thick at the center; surface dry, minutely silky, slightly scaly 
