DESCRIPTIONS OF FUNGI. 121 



Brown. 



obtuse umbo. The cuticle breaks up into 

 brownish scales, close near the centre, but some- 

 times wanting at the margin. The centre or 

 umbo is darker colored ; flesh dry, tough and 

 white. Stem \ inch thick, and 5 to 10 inches 

 long ; it is straight or a little bent, swollen or 

 bulbous at base, sometimes variegated with 

 brownish scales ; deeply sunk at apex into the 

 cup of the pileus ; hollow or stuffed. Ring 

 distinct from the stem, continuous with cuticle 

 of pileus when young. It becomes free when 

 the cap is expanded, and is then movable and 

 persistent. Gills far remote from the stem, 

 with a broad piano-depressed cartilaginous col- 

 lar, crowded, ventricose, broader in front, soft, 

 whitish, sometimes becoming dusky at the edge. 

 The gills vary in color. This mushroom is 

 a handsome species and is quite common in 

 woods and pastures. (Edible.) 



BOLETUS EDULIS = edible. 

 The Edible Boletus. 



Cap varies sometimes in color (our specimen 

 was brown). It is often a tawny light brown, 

 paler at the margin, 4 to 6 inches broad, flesh 

 white or yellowish, tinged with red under the 



