380 MUSHROOMS. EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Boletus satanus. Lenz. 

 Satanic Boletus. 



Pileus convex, smooth, somewhat gluey, brownish-yellow or whitish; flesh 

 whitish, becoming 1 reddish or violaceous where wounded. Tubes free, yellow, 

 their mouths bright red, becoming orange-colored with age. The stem thick, 

 ovate-ventricose, marked above with red reticulations. Peck, Boleti of U. S. 



Hamilton Gibson and Captain Mcllvaine seem to give his Satanic majesty 

 a good reputation, but I would say "Be cautious." His looks always deterred 

 me. Found in woods from June to September. 



Strobilomyces. Berk. 



Strobilomyces is from two Greek words meaning a pine-cone and a fungus. 

 The hymenophore is even, tubes not easily separable from it, large and equal. It 

 is of a brownish-gray color, its shaggy surface more or less studded with deep- 

 brown or black woolly points, each at the center of a scale-like segment. The 

 tubes beneath are covered at first with a veil which breaks and is often found on 

 the rim of the cap. It is a plant that will quickly attract attention. 



Strobilomyces strobilaccus. Berk. 

 The Cone-Like Boletus. Edible. 



Strobilaceus, cone-like. This is especially emphasized from the fact that 

 both the genus and the species are named from the fancied resemblance of the 

 cap to a pine cone. It is ever readily recognized because of this character of 

 the cap. 



The pileus is convex, rough with dark umber scales drawn into regular 

 cone-like points tipped with dark-brown ; margin veiled, flesh grayish-white, 

 turning red when bruised, and finally black. 



Pore-surface grayish-white in young specimens, and usually covered with 

 the veil; tubes attached to the stem, angular, turning red when bruised. 



The stem is equal or tapering upward, furrowed at the top, covered with a 

 woolly down. Spores dark-brown, 12-13x9/1.. Found at Londonderry. Common 

 in woods. August to September. 



