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moist, smooth and shining when dry. The flesh is whitish or pale yellow, 

 but it is apt to fade or become dingy by exposure to the air. The taste is 

 mild. 



The tubes are at first concealed by the thick veil. This soon separates 

 from the margin of the cap and forms a thick, persistent collar on the stem. 

 When first exposed the tubes are pale yellow, but they become ochraceous 

 or dingy ochraceous in the mature plant. Their mouths are small and 

 nearly round. 



The stem is stout, solid and nearly equal in thickness in all its parts. 

 It may be straight or flexuous. It is yellow above the collar and colored 

 like the cap below it. Sometimes the extreme apex is slightly reticulated 

 by the decurrent walls of the tubes, but it is not dotted. The cap is 2 to 5 

 inches broad ; the stem 2 to 5 inches long, 4 to 9 lines thick. This boletus 

 grows in woods and in open places and is generally found under or near 

 tamarack trees. It is specially fond of damp, mossy places, and occurs from 

 July to September. Because of their viscidity, the caps are often soiled by 

 adhering dirt or fragments of leaves. It is well therefore to peel them in 

 preparing them for the table and to remove the tubes. It is excellent in 

 flavor and is a fine addition to our list of edible species. 



Boletus spectabilis Pk. 



Showy Boletus 



PLATE 62, fig. I-J 



Pileus at first hemispheric, covered by a red, tomentose veil, becoming 

 broadly convex or nearly plane and squamose by the breaking up of the 

 tomentum, viscid when moist, red, sometimes fading to yellow, flesh pale 

 yellow ; tubes adnate, pale yellow when young, becoming dingy ochraceous 

 with age, their mouths at first small, then larger and angular ; stem equal or 

 nearly so, solid, annulate, red below the annulus, yellow above and within ; 

 spores purplish brown, .0005 to .0006 of an inch long, .00025 to .0003 

 broad. 



The showy boletus is an attractive species, but it is not very common. 

 It grows in swamps and wet places under or near tamarack trees, and occurs 

 from July to October. It is northern in its range and till the present season 



