Polyporacese 



Sandy soil in pine woods. New York, Peck, Clinton; New England, Bdietns. 

 Frost. 



The species is closely related to B. luteus, from which it differs in its 

 smaller size, more slender stem and glutinous collapsing veil. Peck, 

 Bokti of the U. S. 



Found at Waretown, N. J., 1887, under pines and in same locality 

 as B. luteus, for which it can be readily mistaken. It is usually covered 

 with adherent sand or pine needles. Its flesh is tender with a pleasant 

 glutinosity. Flavor good. 



B. fla'vidus Fr. light yellowish. PileilS thin, gibbous, then plane, 

 viscose, livid, yellowish. Flesh pallid. Tubes decurrent, with large 

 angular compound mouths, dirty yellowish. Stem slender, subequal, 

 pallid, sprinkled with fugacious glandules above the entirely viscose ring. 

 Spores oblong-ellipsoid, straight, subhyaline, 8-10x3-4/0,. 



Pileus 1-2 in. broad. Stem 2-3 in. long, 2-3 lines thick. 



Pine woods and swamps. Pennsylvania, Schweinitz; North Carolina, 

 Curtis; New England, Frost; California, H. and M.; Rhode Island, 

 Bennett. 



Fries says that this species is more slender than its allies, and differs 

 from them all in its merely glutinous veil. Peck, Boleti of the U. S. 



Dr. Curtis, of North Carolina, places it among edible species. 



Many specimens were found by the writer near Waretown and Had- 

 donfield, N. J., and a few at Mt. Gretna, Pa. The stems are thin and 

 slightly spreading at the top. They are hard. The caps are excellent. 



B. America'nilS Pk. Pileus thin, convex or nearly plane, sometimes 

 umbonate, soft, very viscid or glutinous when moist, slightly tomentose 

 on the margin when young, soon glabrous or the margin sometimes 

 remaining scaly, rarely scale-spotted from the drying of the gluten, 

 yellow, becoming dingy or less bright with age, sometimes vaguely 

 dotted or streaked with bright red. Flesh pale-yellow, less clear or 

 pinkish-gray on exposure to the air. Tubes plane or convex, adnate, 

 rather large, angular, pale-yellow, becoming sordid-ochraceous. Stem 

 slender, equal or slightly tapering upward, firm, not at all annulate, 

 yellow, often pallid or brownish toward the base, marked with numerous 

 brown or reddish-brown persistent glandular dots, yellow within. Spores 

 oblong or subfusiform, ochraceo-ferruginous, 911x45/4. 



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