132 TWENTY-THIR. .«EPORT ON THE STATE CAB.NET. 
Edible. The pileus varies in the intensity of the color and 
the density of the tomentum. 
15. BoOLETUS PALUSTER 7. Sp. 
Pileus fleshy, rather thin, convex, then expanded or slightly 
depressed, with a decurved margin, subumbonate, dry, floc- 
cose-tomentose, bright pinkish-red; tubes large, angular, 
slightly decurrent, formed by wider radiating lamelle and 
more narrow transversely connecting and anastomosing dis- 
sepiments, yellow, becoming ochraceous; stem slender, solid, 
nearly smooth, red, yellowish at the top and marked with the 
slightly decurrent walls of the tubes; spores elliptical, dull - 
pinkish or flesh-colored, 3,4,’ long. 
Height 2-3’, breadth of pileus 1’-2’, stem 2’—3’ thick. 
Wet places and swamps among mosses. North Elba. 
August. (Plate 6, figs. 4-7.) 
Allied to Paxillus porosus Berk., with which, perhaps, it 
ought to form a new genus intermediate between Paxillus and 
Boletus, and from which it differs in its more slender habit, 
central stem, floccose-tomentose pileus, larger pores and ellip- 
tical spores. 
16. BoLETUS STROBILACEUS Scop. 
Pileus convex, densely clothed with a blackish tomentum 
which breaks up into thick erect tufts or scales ; tubes plane 
or slightly convex, white becoming darker, not large, angular, 
stem solid, usually scaly and colored like the pileus, whitish 
at the top; flesh white, changing to red then to black when 
wounded. 
Height 3’-6’, breadth of pileus 2’-4’, stem 4”— 6” thick. 
Ground in woods and open places. Common. Buffalo, 
Clinton. Utica, Johnson. Poughkeepsie, Gerard. Albany 
and Sandlake. July and August. 
17. BoLetus RETIPES B. & C. 
Pileus thick, firm, broadly convex, dry, smooth or very 
minutely tomentose, grayish-brown ; tubes concave or plane, 
rarely convex, attached, small, round, bright yellow; stipe 
equal, solid, yellow, strongly reticulated its whole length, the 
reticulations formed by the anastomosing of distinct firm 
vein-like ridges ; flesh yellow, not changing color. 
Height 3’—5’, breadth of pileus 2’-3’, stipe 3’—5” thick. 
Banks by roadsides. North Elba. August. 
B. retipes is said to have the pileus yellow, and the stem 
reticulated nearly to the base—vparticulars which do not 
agree with our specimens. It is possible that future inves- 
