Fungi with Pores Poly poraceae 



Edible Boletus 



Boletus edulis 



Cap Convex or nearly plane; smooth, moist; compact, then 



soft. Greyish red, brownish red, or tawny brown. 4-6 



inches broad. 



Flesh White or yellowish; reddish beneath the skin. 

 Tubes Convex, nearly free, long, minute, round. White, then 



yellow and greenish. 

 Stem Short or long, straight or curving, sometimes bulbous, 



stout, covered with network. Just beneath the sterp 



whitish or brownish. 2-6 inches long. 

 Habitat Thin woods. I 



Boletus subtomentosus 



Cap Covered with soft -woolly hairs. Somewhat olive green, 

 uniform in colour under the skin, yellow chinks on the sur- 

 face. 



Flesh White. 



Tubes Yellow, with large angular mouths. 



Stem Stout, rugged, with minute dots. 



Habitat Common in woods. 



Boletus Americanus 



Cap Thin, soft, viscid, slightly woolly on the margin when 

 young. Yellow, becoming dingy with age; sometimes 

 streaked with bright red. 1-3 inches broad. 



Flesh Pale yellow. 



Tubes Not free from the stem. Large, angular. Pale yellow, 

 becoming tinged with brown. 



Stem Slender. No annulus. Yellow, brownish towards the base, 

 marked with numerous brown or reddish-brown glandular 

 dots; yellow within. i^-2>^ inches long. 



Habitat Woods, swamps. 



POLYPORACE/E 



The fungi with pores permanently united to the surrounding 

 tissue and to each other form a large and important group, the 

 Polyporacece. With but few exceptions they are leathery, corky, 

 membranous, or woody. 



Nearly six hundred species have been reported from America. 



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