38 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
NEW SPECIES OF EXTRALIMITAL FUNGI 
Asteromella asteris 
Perithecia superficial, epiphyllous, densely cespitose, seated on an 
obscure thin brown crust, globose, about .25 mm broad, black, the 
tufts about I mm broad; spores minute, oblong or subcylindric, con- 
tinuous, hyaline, 6-8 x 2-2.5 mw, sporophores minute or obsolete. 
Upper surface of living or languishing leaves of the panicled aster, 
Aster paniculatus Lam. Louisville, Kan. October. 
E. Bartholomew. 
Perithecia superficialia, epiphylla, dense aggregata, crusta tenue 
obscura brunnea insidentia, globosa, atra, caespites I mm lati; sporae 
minutae, oblongae vel subcylindraceae, continuae, hyalinae, 6-8 x 
2-2.5 mw, sporophores minuti vel obsoleti. 
Boletinus solidipes 
Pileus fleshy, convex becoming broadly convex or nearly plane, 
squamose with radiately arranged closely appressed brown or pur- 
plish brown hairs, sometimes purplish brown or yellowish brown in 
the center, flesh whitish; tubes small, angular, radiately arranged, 
grayish becoming brown, adnate or decurrent; stem equal, solid, 
slightly annulate, yellowish below the annulus, grayish above, often 
stained with darker spots or marks, white or yellowish within, veil 
grayish, adhering partly to the margin of the pileus, partly to the 
stem ; spore print ochraceous, spores 8-10 x 4-5 up. 
Pileus 5 to 10 cm broad; stem 5-8 cm long, 8-10 mm thick. 
Friendship, Me. August. G. E. Morris. 
This species resembles in some respects Boletinus cavipes 
Opat. but it is somewhat darker in color and differs specially in its 
solid stem. 
Pileus carnosus, convexus, demum late convexus vel subplanus, 
pilis purpureo-brunneus radiantibus appressis squamosus, interdum 
in centro lutescente brunneus, carne albido; tubuli parvi, angulares, 
-radiantes, adnati vel decurrentes, grisei, deinde brunnei; stipes 
aequalis, solidus, leviter annulatus, infra annulum luteolus, supra 
annulum griseus, saepe maculis brunneis inquinatus, intra albidus, 
velo griseo, margini partim pilei et partim stipiti adherente ; sporae 
subochraceae, oblongae, 8-10 x 4-5 up. 
