Polyporaceae 



Boletus. Woods and copses. Port Jefferson. July. Peck, 5oth Rep. N. Y. 



State Dot. 



Found in plenty at Mt. Gretna, Pa., September, 1898. On ground 

 and old stumps in mixed woods. Identified by Professor Peck. 



Taste and smell pleasant. Cooked as egg-plant it is one of the best. 

 Remove tubes. 



B. Peck'ii Frost after C. H. Peck. Pileus convex, firm, dry, sub- 

 glabrous, red, fading to yellowish-red or buff-brown with age, the margin 

 usually retaining its red color longer than the disk/ Tubes adnate or 

 slightly decurrent, nearly plane, yellow, changing to blue where wounded. 

 Stem equal or subventricose, reticulated, red, yellow at the top. Spores 

 oblong, pale ochraceous-brown, 912x45^. 



Var. lavipes. Stem reticulated above, even below. 



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



Woods of frondose trees. New York, Peck. Peck, Boleti of the U.S. 



B. cal'opns Fr. Gr. beautiful; Gr. foot. Pileus globose, then 

 convex, unpolished, subtomentose , olivaceous. Flesh pallid, slightly 

 changing to blue when wounded. Tubes adnate, their mouths minute, 

 angular, yellow. Stem firm, conical, then elongated and subequal, 

 reticulated, wliolly scarlet or at the apex only, sometimes colored like 

 the pileus toward the base. Spores fusiform, yellowish-brown, /-8x 



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Pileus 2-3 in. broad. Stem longer than the diameter of the pileus. 



Woods. North Carolina, Schweinitz, Curtis; Pennsylvania, Schwein- 

 itz; New England, Sprague, Bennett. Peck, Boleti of the U. S. 



B. orna'tipes Pk. ornate-stem. (Boletus retipes, Rep. 23.) Pileus 

 convex, firm, dry, glabrous or very minutely tomentose, grayish-brown 

 or yellowish-brown. Flesh yellow or pale-yellow. Tubes adnate, plane, 

 or concave, rarely convex, the mouths small or medium size, clear-yel- 

 low. Stem firm, subequal, distinctly and beautifully reticulated, yellow 

 without and within. Spores oblong, ochraceous-brown, 1216x45^. 



Pileus 2-5 in. broad. Stem 2-4 in. long, 4-6 lines thick. 



Thin woods and open places. New York, Peck. 



The color of the tubes becomes darker with age, but it does not 

 change to blue where wounded. The species is related to the next fol- 



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