130 TwEyTY-TiiiRD Report ox the State Cabixet. 



Height 2-3', breadth of pileus 2-3', stipe 3"- 6" thick. 

 In pastures and borders of woods. Common. Albany. 

 Sandlake, etc. September and October. Edible. 

 The plant is sometimes csespitose. 



8. Boletus albus n. sp. 



Pileus fleshy, smooth, convex, viscid when moist, white ; 

 tubes plane, attached, subrotund, medium size, compound, 

 ochraceous-yellow ; stipe equal or slightly tapering down- 

 ward, white, tinged with pink, dotted, not annulate, slightly 

 reticulated at the top ; flesh white. 



Height 3'- 4', breadtli of pileus 2'- 3', stipe 3"- 5" thick. 



Woods. Adirondack Mountains. August. 



This species diff"ers from B. coUinitus in its white pileus, 

 larger and difierently colored tubes, etc. 



*9. Boletus scabee Fr. 



Pileus convex, viscid when moist, variable in color, brick 

 red, gray or brown ; tubes convex, depressed about the stipe 

 or free, small, rotund, white, then grayish-yellow ; stem solid, 

 slightly tapering upward, exannulate, white, rough with 

 small, blackish, fibrous scales. 



Height 4'- 6', breadth of pileus 3'- 5', stipe 4"- 6" thick. 



Borders of woods and open places. Common. June -Sep- 

 tember 



Edible. Variable. It sometimes attains a very large size, 

 exceeding the dimensions given. 



10. Boletus cyaistescens Bull. 



Pileus broadly convex or expanded, dry, densely yellowish- 

 tomentose or floccose-squamose ; tubes convex, free, small, 

 round, whitish, then yellow ; stipe firm, stuffed or hollow, 

 tomentose-pruinose, rapidly tapering toward the top, ventri- 

 cose- bulbous at the base, concolorous ; flesh white, quickly 

 turning blue and purple when cut or bruised. 



Height 3'- 5', breadth of pileus 2'- 4'. 



Banks by roadsides and in woods. Sandlake and Adiron 

 dack Mountains. August and September. 



The tomentum of the pileus genei-ally breaks up into sub- 

 stellate areas or scales. The exterior of the stem is firm, the 

 int(>rior soft or spongy. Wlum the flesli is bruised the purple 

 tints generally appear first, then the blue. 



11. Boletus vermtculosus n. sj). 



Pileus broadly convex, dry, smooth or most minutely 

 tomentose, grayish-brown, tinged with red ; tubes plane or 



