THE TUBE-BEARING FUNGI 



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Figure 312. Strobilomyces strobilaceus. Two-thirds natural size. 



Boletinus. Kalchb. 



Boletinus is a diminutive of Boletus. 



Hymenium composed of broad radiating lamellae, connected by very numerous 

 and narrow anastomosing- branches or partitions, forming large angular 

 pores. Tubes somewhat tenacious, not easily separable from the hymenophore and 

 from each other, adnate or subdecurrent, yellowish. Peck. 



Boletinus pictus. Pk. 

 The Painted Boletinus. Edible. 



Pictus, painted. This plant seems to delight in damp pine woods, but I have 

 found it only occasionally about Chillicothe, under beech trees. It is readily recog- 

 nized by the red fibrillose tomentum which covers the entire plant when young. As 

 the plant expands the reddish tomentum is broken into scales of the 

 same color, revealing the yellowish color of the pileus beneath. The flesh is 

 compact, yellow, often changing to a dull pinkish or reddish tint where wounded. 



The tube-surface is at first pale yellow, but becomes darker with age, often 

 changing to pinkish, with a brown tinge where bruised. 



