Polyporacese 



Boletus. B. Clin'tonianus Pk. PileilS convex, very viscid or glutinous, glab- 

 rous, soft, shining, golden-yellow, reddish-yellow or chestnut color, the 

 margin thin. Flesh pale yellow, becoming less bright or dingy on ex- 

 posure to the air. Tubes nearly plane, adnate or subdecurrent, small, 

 angular or subrotund, pale-yellow, becoming dingy-ochraceous with 

 age, changing to brown or purplish-brown where bruised. Stem equal 

 or slightly thickened toward the base, straight or flexuous, yellow at the 

 top, reddish or reddish-brown below the annulus, sometimes varied with 

 yellow stains, the annulus white or yellow, persistent, forming a thick 

 band about the stem. Spores brownish-ochraceous , I 0-11x4-5^. 



Pileus 2-5 in. broad. Stem 2-5 in. long, 4-9 lines thick. 



Mossy or grassy ground in woods or open places, especially under or 

 near tamarack trees. New York, Peck; New England, Frost. 



This is apparently closely related to B. elegans, from which it differs 

 in its thick persistent ring, in its stem which is not at all dotted and in 

 its longer and darker-colored spores. Its smaller tube's and persistent 

 ring separate it also from B. flavus. In the typical form the pileus is 

 bay-red or chestnut color, but plants growing in open places generally 

 have it yellowish or reddrsh-yellow. It is mild to the taste and I have 

 eaten it sparingly. It sometimes grows in tufts. Peck, Boleti of the U. S. 



B. inflex'us Pk. curving. PileilS convex, glabrous, viscid, yellow, 

 often red or reddish on the disk, the margin thin, inflexed, concealing 

 the marginal tubes. Flesh whitish, not changing color where wounded. 

 Tubes rather long, adnate, yellowish, becoming dingy-yellow with age, 

 the mouths small, dotted with reddish glandules. Stem rather slender, 

 not ringed, solid, viscid, dotted with livid-yellow glandules. Spores 

 yellowish, 10 12x4 5/*. 



Pileus about i in. broad. Stem about 2 in. long, 2-4 lines thick. 



Open woods. Trexlertown. September. Herbst. 



This Boletus belongs to the tribe Viscipelles. It is remarkable for and 

 easily recognized by the inflexed margin of the pileus, which imitates to 

 some extent the appendiculate veil of Boletus versipellis. It sometimes 

 grows in tufts. The paper in which fresh specimens were wrapped was 

 stained yellow. Boletus Braunii Bres. has an inflexed margin, but that 

 is a much larger plant with a yellowish-brown pileus, a fibrillose stem 

 and much smaller spores. Peek, Bull. Torr. Bot. Club, Vol. 22, No. 5. 



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