THE TUBE-BEARING FUNGI 



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Boletus retipes. B. and C. 



The Beautiful-stemmed Boletus. Edible. 



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Retipes is from rete, a net ; pes, a foot ; so called from the delicate net-work 

 seen on the stem. 



The pileus is convex, dry, powdered with yellow, sometimes rivulose or 

 cracked in areas. The tubes are adnate, yellow. 



The stem is sub-equal, cespitose, reticulate to the base, pulverulent below. 

 The spores are greenish-ochraceous, 12- 15x4-5/*. Peck, Boleti. 



B. retipes is very close to B. ornatipes, but its manner of growth, its pul- 

 verulent cap, and its greenish-ochraceous spores will at once distinquish it. I 

 have found them on Ralston's Run, a number from the same mycelial cluster, 

 as in Figure 301. The caps only are good. The specimens in the figure were 

 found near Ashville, N. C, and photographed by Prof. H. C. Beardslee. 



Figure 301. Boletus retipes. Natural size. 



