366 MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



The cap of this species strongly resembles Boletus alveolatus, but the latter 

 has rose-colored spores and a red pore surface, while the' former has light brown 

 spores and an olive-yellow pore surface. Tolerton's and Bower's woods, Salem, 

 Ohio, July to October. 



Boletus edulis. Bull. 

 The Edible Boletus. 



This is quite a large and handsome plant and one rather easily recognized. 

 The firm caps of the young plant and the white tubes with their very indistinct 

 mouths, and the mature plants with the tubes changing to a greenish yellow with 

 their mouths quite distinct, are enough to identify the plant at once. 



The pileus is convex or nearly plane; variable in color, light brown to dark 

 brownish-red. surface smooth but dull, cap from three to eight inches broad. 

 The flesh is white or yellowish, not changing color on being bruised or broken. 



The tube-surface is whitish in very young plants, at length becoming yellow 

 and yellowish-green. Pore openings angled. The tubes depressed around the 

 stem, which is stout, bulbous, often disproportionately elongated ; pale-brown ; 

 straight or flexuous, generally with a fine raised net-work of pink lines near junc- 

 tion of cap, sometimes extending to the base. The taste is agreeable and nutty, 

 especially when young. Woods and open places. July and August. Common 

 about Salem and Chillicothe. Ohio. 



It is one of our best mushrooms. Captain Mcllvaine says : "Carefully 

 sliced, dried, and kept where safe from mold, it may be prepared for the table at 

 any season." 



'Boletus speciosus. Frost. 

 The Handsome Boeetus. Edible. 



Speciosus means handsome. 



The pileus is three to six inches broad, at first very thick, subglobose. com- 

 pact, then softer, convex, glabrous or nearly so, red or deep scarlet. The flesh 

 is pale yellow or bright lemon-yellow, changing to blue where wounded. 



The tubes are adnate, small, subrotund, plane, or slightly depressed around 

 the stem ; bright lemon-yellow, becoming dingy-yellow with age, changing to 

 blue where bruised. 



