Polyporacese 



lated, whitish or pallid. Spores oblong-fusiform, ochraceous-brown Boletus, 

 tinged with green, I2-1 5x5/A. Peck, Boleti of the U. S. 



Mt. Gretna, Pa. August, 1898. Stem slightly reticulated at top, 

 indistinctly striate below. 'Smell and taste strong, like B. felleus, but 

 sweetish, not bitter. When tubes are removed and cap fried it is 

 excellent. 



Var. al'bipes. Stem whitish, wholly reticulated, the reticulations 

 coarser near the base. Peck, Boleti of the U.S. 



Mt. Gretna, Pa. August, 1898. Taste slightly acrid, smell slight. 

 Excellent. 



Var. pallid 'ipes. Stem pallid, slightly furfuraceous, even or obscurely 

 reticulated toward the base, distinctly reticulated above. Peck, Boleti 

 of the U. S. 



Satiny, shining. Taste slightly acrid, smell slight. Excellent. 



Var. tenu'ipes. Stem slender, elongated. Peck, Boleti of the U.S. 



Mt. Gretna, Pa. August, 1898, on decaying chestnut stump and on 

 ground. Excellent. Mcllvaine. 



This species, with its varieties, grows in mixed woods, the density of 

 which has much to do with its general appearance. Individuals grow- 

 ing where the sun plays upon them, show the reticulations plainer than 

 those maturing in the shade. The tubes should be removed before 

 cooking. The caps are best fried. 



B. exi'mius Pk. select. PileuS at first very compact, subglobose 

 or hemispherical, subpruinose, purplish-brown or chocolate color, some- 

 times with a faint tinge of lilac, becoming convex, soft, smoky-red or 

 pale-chestnut. Flesh grayish or reddish-white. Tubes at first con- 

 cave or nearly plane, stuffed, colored nearly like the pileus, becoming 

 paler with age and depressed around the stem, their mouths minute, 

 rotund. Stem stout, generally short, equal or tapering upward, ab- 

 ruptly narrowed at the base, minutely branny, colored like or a little 

 paler than the pileus, purplish-gray within. Spores subferruginous, 

 1 2.5-15x5-6^. 



Pileus 3-10 in. broad. Stem 2-4 in. long, 6-12 lines thick. 



Woods and their borders. New England, Frost; New York, Peck. 

 Peck, Boleti of the U. S. 



In mixed woods and in new clearings near Bartram's Garden, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. Mcllvaine. 



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