160 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLUME 9 
on the disk, whitish-yellow or dirty yellowish-brown, sometimes faintly speckled; margin 
acute, entire, appendiculate: context yellow, taste mild; tubes scarcely decurrent, adnate, 
plane or somewhat concave in mass, yellow, becoming brownish-yellow with age: spores 
rather small, oblong, ochraceous-ferruginous, 8-10 X3-4: stipe equal, usually curved, 
tapering below, brownish-yellow, subfloccose to glabrous, solid or spongy and yellow within, 
5-8 cm. long, 0.7-1.5 cm. thick ; veil floccose, evanescent, adhering partly to the margin 
and partly to the summit of the stipe in the form of a slight annulus. 
TYPE LOCALITY: South Carolina. 
HasitaT: Thin woods. . 
DISTRIBUTION: New Jersey to Florida and west to Kentucky. 
4. Boletinus appendiculatus Peck, Bull. Torrey 
Club 23: 418. 1896. 
Pileus convex, 10-20 cm. broad; surface glabrous, ochraceous-yellow ; margin appen- 
diculate, with a thin, incurved, conspicuous veil: context pale-yellow, unchanging; tubes 
yellow, becoming darker or brownish when wounded, mouths rather small, angular, unequal : 
spores oblong-ellipsoid, pale-yellow, 10-124: stipe slightly thickened at the base, yel- 
low, solid, 5~7 cm. long, 8-12 mm. thick. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Washington, D.C. 
HasitaT: Under fir trees. . 
DISTRIBUTION: Known only from the type locality. 
5. Boletinus spectabilis Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State 
Cab. 23: 128. 1872. 
Pileus broad, convex, 5-10 cm. broad; surface bright-red, viscid when moist, at first 
covered with a red tomentum, becoming squamose and fading to grayish-red or yellowish- 
brown : context whitish or pale-yellow, becoming deeper yellow on exposure, emitting a 
strong, unpleasant odor; tubes adnate, convex in mass, ochraceous, concealed at first by a 
reddish, glutinous membrane, mouths large, angular: spores oblong-ellipsoid, pointed at 
one end, usually with one or two nuclei, cremeous-melleous or darker under a microscope, 
purplish-brown in mass, 12-14 5x: stipe subequal, yellow above the annulus, red or yel- 
lowish-red below, 7-12 cm. long, 8-12 mm. thick ; veil tomentose when young, remaining 
in the form of scales on the pileus and a ring on the stipe. 
TYPE LOCALITY : North Elba, New York. 
HABITAT: Exposed northern swamps. 
DISTRIBUTION: Canada to New York and west to Wisconsin. 
ss Pao a Ann. Rep. N, Y. State Cab. 23: 61.6, f 1-3; Mem. N. Y. State Mus. 3: pl. 
6. Boletinus pictus Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 8: 77. 1889. 
Boletus pictus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Cab. 23: 128. 1872. 
Boletus Spraguet Berk, & Curt. Grevillea 1: 35. 1872, (Type from New England.) 
Boletus Murraii Berk. & Curt. Grevillea 1: 36. 1872. 
Pileus convex to expanded, gregarious, 5-8 cm. broad; surface dry or slightly viscid, 
imbricate-scaly, at first deep-red, later becoming fawn-colored owing to the separation of 
the dense, fibrillose tomentum into scales; margin often appendiculate: context thick, 
tough, creamy-yellow, changing slowly to pinkish when bruised, becoming yellowish- 
brown with age; tubes adnate, somewhat decurrent, not depressed, short, pale-yellow, 
sometimes changing to pinkish-brown when bruised, becoming dull yellowish-brown with 
age, mouths angular, large, compound: spores ellipsoid, smooth, stramineous under a 
microscope, ochraceous or pale-brown in mass: stipe cylindric, slightly tapering down- 
ward, yellowish above, subglabrous below, squamiulose, solid or spongy within, sometimes 
becoming hollow, the flesh white with brownish discolorations toward the base, 5-7 cm. 
long, 1 cm. or less thick ; veil white, thin, copious, tomentose, remaining in mature plants 
partly attached to the margin, but mostly on the stipe as a dense, tomentose covering and 
an irregular, subapical annulus. 
TYPE LOCALITY: New York. 
HasitaT: Woods and mossy swamps. 
