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: Pileus 2-5 inches broad, 1-3 of an inch thick, fleshy, viscid 
when moist; reddish brown, rather shining; margin thin 
and even. 
Stem lateral, 1 inch or more high, À of an inch thick, 
tough, diffused into the pileus, reticulated above by the 
decurrent hymenium. 
Hymenium yellow, porous, formed by radiating thin folds, 
from a line to 1 a line distant, branching, and connected by 
numerous irregular veins so as to form large angular pores, 
the tadiating folds being broader than those which connect 
| them. Spores semi-ovate. Smell very strong ave ose 
_ Sant. 
Nearly allied to Pazillus involutus, but apparently dintthée: 
The spores are of the same form, but larger than in that 
. Species. Without examining the fructification, it might be 
taken for a Boletus. 
. . M6. P. flavidus, n. sp.; pileo alutaceo-fusco aspire 
. Süpite lento flavo squamulis glutinosis perdi lamellis quies 
ramosis postice fureatis, vivide flavis. - = 
„On the ground amongst grass in dry open ode: Waynes- 
ville, Ohio. Sept. 10: 1844. T. G. Lea, Eag. 
. Pileus 2-4 inches across, depressed, sometimes int 
E smooth to the touch, like kid leather, buffish 
wn, or r pale MI viscid when moist ; flesh 
