Polyporaceae 



pear to run together. In the Catalogue of Plants of Amherst the spe- Boletus, 

 cific name is " chromapus." It would be more in accordance with 

 present custom to write it "chromopus." Peck, Boleti of the U. S. 



A dozen or more specimens referable to this species were found by 

 me at Mt. Gretna, Pa., August, 1897, m mixed woods. The caps were 

 eaten and were excellent. 



B. neblllo'silS Pk. PileilS convex, dry, snuff-brown or smoky-brown. 

 Flesh white, unchangeable. Tubes convex, depressed around the stem, 

 pallid or brownish, becoming purplish-brown where wounded, the 

 mouths small, rotund. Stem enlarged toward the base, solid, scurfy, 

 colored like the pileus. Spores 12.5-15x6^. 



PileilS 2-4 in. broad. Stem 3-4 in. long, 4-6 lines thick. 



Shaded banks by road-side. Raybrook. August. 



No young or immature specimens were seen, and the description is 

 to that extent incomplete. Peck, 5ist Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



By a painting made by the writer September, 1885, Professor Peck 

 identified the species of which it is a picture as B. nebulosus Pk. The 

 following notes accompany it, which have been verified many times 

 since their v/riting : 



Oak woods. West Philadelphia, Pa., September. Mt. Gretna, Pa., 

 September. 



PileilS chestnut-brown and darker, covered with small, low, black 

 spots; convex, often depressed in center, sharp on margin. Flesh 

 white, thick, solid, unchangeable. Tubes very small, and light pink- 

 ish-brown. When touched they change to a deeper hue. Stem same 

 color as pileus, but a shade lighter, solid, scurfy, having a striate ap- 

 pearance, enlarging toward base. 



Taste sweet and pleasant. Cooked it is juicy, meaty and very fine. 



B. ful'vus Pk. brownish-yellow. (Plate CXVI, fig. 3, p. 420.) 

 Pileus thick, convex or subcampanulate, dry, glabrous, rimose-areolate, 

 tawny-yellow, the extreme margin dark-brown. Flesh spongy, tough, 

 white, slowly assuming a reddish tint upon exposure to the air. Tubes 

 rather long, ventricose, depressed around the stem and free or nearly 

 so, greenish-yellow, the mouths small, tawny-yellow. Stem rather long, 

 often narrowed and striate at the top, dotted with brownish-orange gran- 



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