NOVA SCOTIA FUNGI.— MACK AY. 135 



before reacliiuti; the stem beyond whicli tlie tubes become 

 decurrent on the stem. Tube mouths red, angular, one 

 mm. in diameter on an average. The rest of the tubes 

 dark oehraceous. Spores 10 microns by 3 to 4, eccentric- 

 ally apiculate at one end. (A. H. 3IacKay). 



Boletus mMf/nisjMjrcx Frost. 8pr3"field, Hfx. co., AHMK. 



B. scaber Fr. Pictou, AHMK. Middleton, RRG. Shelburne, 

 CSB. Edible. 



B. scaber, var. fascas. Middleton, RRG. Edible. 



B. chroincipes Frost. Under tir and spruce, Middleton, RRG. 

 Dartmouth, AHMK. Edible. 



B. fjracilia Pk. Middleton, RRG. Edible when specially 

 cooked. 



B. felleibs Bull. Middleton, very bitter, RRG. 



B. amplij)orus Pk. (?). Pictou, Oct., JS. 



Genus (AaII20).— Polvpouu.s Fr. 



Polyjjorax britmd.lis Fr. Dalhousie, Pictou co., AHMK. 



P. l^ptocephal as Fr. On dead wood. Willow Park, Hfx., JS). 



P. perennis Fr. Pictou, AHMK. Middleton {Polystidivs 

 perenms) RRG. 



P. circinatas Fr. Pictou, AHMK. Edible when tender. 



P. picipes Fr. Halifax, Oct., JS. Middleton, RRG. Edible 

 when tender. 



P. elegan.H Fr. Hopewell, Pictou county, AHMK. Middleton, 

 RRG. 



P. liuddas Fr. Pictou county, Common. AHMK. Middle- 

 ton, RRG. Near Halifax, H. Piers. 



P. siilphureibs Fr. Dalhousie, Pictou county, AHMK. Anti- 

 gonish and Truro, JMS. Edible. 



P. salignus Fr. On willows, Halifax Common, JS. 



P. epileiicas Fr. On dead birch, Dalhousie, Pictou co., AHMK. 



P. chioneus Fr. Halifax, JS. Edible when young. 



P. ccvsius Fr. Pictou, AHMK. 



