126 MUSHEOOMS. 



Brown. 



BOLETUS PIPERATUS = peppery. 

 The Peppery Boletus. 



Cap reddish-brown or ochraceous, 1 to 3 

 inches broad, convex or nearly plane, smooth, 

 slightly viscid when moist, flesh white or yel- 

 lowish, taste acrid, peppery. Tabes long, 

 large, unequal, plane or convex, adnate or nearly 

 decurrent, reddish, ferruginous. Stem 1§ to 

 3 inches long, 2 to 4 lines thick, slender, almost 

 equal, tawny yellow ; at the base a bright yel- 

 low. The cap in our specimen was marked with 

 cracks and patches, and the margin obtuse. 

 The stem was rather curved, and the same color 

 as the cap. Flesh yellow. Tubes a dark-red- 

 dish, decided color, which makes it a striking- 

 looking mushroom. Taste peppery. 



BOLETUS SORDIDUS = dingy. 

 The Dingy-colored Boletus. 



Cap a dingy, dark brown, about 2 inches 

 broad, flesh white, tinged with red. Tubes 

 long, nearly free, f inch long, white, turning 

 a dark bluish-green. Stem tapering toward 

 apex, 2| inches long, curved, solid, \ inch thick, 

 brownish, marked with darker streaks. The 



