130 TWENTY-THIRD REPORT ON THE STATE CABINET. 
Height 2’-3’, breadth of pileus 2’—3’, stipe 3’—6” thick. 
In pastures and borders of woods. Common. Albany. 
Sandlake, etc. September and October. Edible. 
The plant is sometimes ceespitose. 
8. BoLETUS ALBUS 2. sp. 
Pileus fleshy, smooth, convex, viscid when moist, white; 
tubes plane, attached, subrotund, medium size, compound, 
ochraceous-yellow ; stipe equal or slightly tapering down- 
ward, white, tinged with pink, dotted, not annulate, slightly 
reticulated at the top ; flesh white. 
Height 3'—4’, breadth of pileus 2-3’, stipe 3’- 5” thick. 
Woods. Adirondack Mountains. August. 
This species differs from #. collinitus in its white pileus, 
larger and differently colored tubes, etc. 
*9. BOLETUS SCABER Fr. 
Pileus convex, viscid when moist, variable in color, brick 
red, gray or brown; tubes convex, depressed about the stipe 
or free, small, rotund, white, then grayish-yellow ; stem solid, 
slightly tapering upward, exannulate, white, rough with 
small, blackish, fibrous scales. 
Height 4’-6’, breadth of pileus 3’—5’, stipe 4’ 6” thick. 
Borders of woods and open places. Common. June-—Sep- 
tember 
Edible. Variable. It sometimes attains a very large size, 
exceeding the dimensions given. 
10. BoLETuUS CYANESCENS Bul. 
Pileus broadly convex or expanded, dry, densely yellowish- 
tomentose or floccose-squamose; tubes convex, free, small, 
round, whitish, then yellow; stipe firm, stuffed or hollow, 
tomentose-pruinose, rapidly tapering toward the top, ventri- 
cose- bulbous at the base, concolorous; flesh white, quickly 
turning blue and purple when cut or bruised. 
Height 3’—5’, breadth of pileus 2’ 4’. 
Banks by roadsides and in woods. Sandlake and Adiron 
dack Mountains. August and September. 
The tomentum of the pileus generally breaks up into sub- 
stellate areas or scales. The exterior of the stem is firm, the 
interior soft or spongy. When the flesh is bruised the purple 
tints generally appear first, then the blue. 
11. BOLETUS VERMICULOSUS 2. Sp. 
Pileus broadly convex, dry, smooth or most minutely 
tomentose, grayish-brown, tinged with red; tubes plane or 
