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flesh white, unchangeable; spores oblong, mostly narrowed toward 
one end, .0004'—.0005’ long. 
Plant 3'-4' high, pileus 3'-4’ broad, stem 6’~10” thick. 
Woods. Sandlake. August. 
Boterus Preckn Frost n. sp. | 
Pileus dry, firm, minutely tomentulose, red, fading to buff-brown, 
the margin usually retaining its color longer than the disk; tubes 
nearly plane, adnate or slightly decurrent, yellow, turning blue when 
wounded ; stem equal or subventricose, strongly reticulated, red, yel- 
low at the top; spores ochraceous-brown, oblong, .00035'—.0004' long. 
Plant 3'-4' high, pileus 2'-3’ broad, stem 3’—6" thick. 
Ground in deciduous woods. Sandlake. August. 
The stem is generally brighter colored than the pileus and retains 
its color longer. The species should be referred to the Calopodes. 
Botetus erisEus Lost n. sp. 
Pileus dry, firm, nearly smooth, gray or grayish black ; tubes nearly 
plane, adnate, sometimes slightly depressed around the stem, small, 
unequal, subrotund, white ; stem whitish or yellowish, strongly reticu- 
lated, often abruptly narrowed and yellow at the base; flesh whitish 
or gray ; spores ochraceous-brown, oblong, .0004’—.0005’ long. 
Plant 3’—4’ high, pileus 2’—4’ broad, stem 6’-12” thick. 
Deciduous woods. Sandlake. August. 
The plants have a rather strong unpleasant odor. The color of the 
pileus is variable, but it is generally some shade of gray. The reticu- 
lations of the stem are finer at the top, coarser, elongated and some- 
what compound toward the base, but in the dried specimens the finer 
reticulations at the top of the stem are the most distinct, the others 
becoming obsolete. My esteemed friend, Mr. Frost, finds a form 
which he considers a variety of this species, differing from the type 
in having the tubes flesh and stem yellow. 
GUEPINIA HELVELLOIDEs DC. 
Decayed wood partly buried. Oneida. Warne. 
Mr. Warne remarks that he has found it in but one limited locality, 
four or five feet square, and that its color when fresh is a very beauti- 
ful reddish-brown. 
PHLEBIA PILEATA 2. 8p. 
Pilei coriaceous, effuso-reflexed, more or less imbricated and later- 
ally confluent, concentrically sulcate, zonate, subtomentose, purplish- 
brown ; hymenium a little paler, usually stained with red or orange 
on the margin, the folds crowded, radiating, frequently interrupted 
