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equal, brown, reticulated with darker lines; spores .0004' x .0002'; flesh gray 
or pinkish gray. ; 
Plant 2' high, pileus 2’ broad, stem 2/—4” thick. 
Grassy ground in open woods. Greenbush. August. 
Boletus pallidus, Frost. 
Pileus soft, viscid when moist, smooth, pale alutaceous; tubes plane, 
attached to or sometimes slightly depressed around the stem, small, subangu- 
lar, pale yellow, slightly changing color when wounded; stem subequal, 
smooth, solid, pallid; spores .00045' x .00022’. 
Plant 2'-5' high, pileus 2'-4' broad, stem 4/—6” thick. 
Ground in woods. North Greenbush. August. 
Boletus ampliporus, Peck. 
Pileus broadly convex or expanded, sometimes slightly umbonate, dry, 
squamulose-tomentose, pinkish-brown; tubes convex, attached or slightly de- 
current, very large, angular, compound, yellow; stem equal, solid, yellowish- 
brown, paler at the top, and marked by the decurrent walls of the tubes; flesh 
whitish tinged with yellow, unchangeable; spores pale ochraceous, with a 
greenish tinge, 00085! x .00016'. 
Plant 3'-5' high, pileus 3'-4' broad, stem, 3-6” thick. 
Low mossy ground in woods. North Elba and Sandlake. Au- 
gust and September. 
Polyporus caeruleoporus, Peck. 
Pileus fleshy, broadly convex, subtomentose, moist or hygrophanous, brown ; 
pores short, angular, decurrent, grayish-blue ; stem central or eccentric, solid, 
colored like the pileus, sometimes tinged with the color of the pores; flesh 
white. 
Plant gregarious or subcaespitose, 2’ high, pileus 1'-2' broad, stem 2-3” 
thick. 
Shaded banks. Copake. October. 
This and the three following species belong to the section 
Mesopus. 
Polyporus griseus, Peck. 
Pileus fleshy, firm, convex, often irregular, smooth or with a minute ap- 
pressed silkiness, dry, gray ; pores small, short, unequal, subangular, pallid, 
the mouths white ; stem central, thick, short, concolorous ; flesh pinkish-gray. 
Plant 2’-3’ high, pileus 3-5’ broad, stem 6’’-10” thick. 
Shaded banks. Copake. October. 
