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Stem firm, equal or slightly tapering upward, subflexuous, solid, 

 minutely dotted with brown or brownish glands both above and below 

 the slight, mostly glutinous and evanescent annulus. Spores subferru- 

 gineous, oblong elliptic, .0003-. 0004 of an inch long, .000 12-. 00016 

 broad. 



Pileus 1-2 inches brad. Stem 1.5-3 inches long, 2-3 lines thick. 

 Under pine and hemlock trees. Port Henry, New York. August. 



This species belongs to the section Viscipelles. It is closely related 

 to Boletus punctipes and B. americamis, from which it is separated by 

 its slight but mostly evanescent annulus, and by its acid taste. Peck 



The edible qualities of this species are unknown. Whatever may be 

 its innocence, its acidity renders it at least forbidding. 



Boletus AtkinSOni Pk. Rep., 1904: 20. Pileus fleshy, convex or 

 nearly plane, dry, grayish brown or yellowish brown, sometimes min- 

 utely rimosely squamulose. Flesh white, taste mild. Tubes convex, 

 plane or slightly concave in the mass, 

 adnate or slightly depressed around the 

 stem, 3-4 lines long, the mouths min- 

 ute, at first whitish and stuffed, soon 

 open and yellow or subochraceous. 

 Stem stout, equal or slightly thickened 

 at one or both ends, solid reticulated 

 wholly or at the top only with fine 

 anastomosing brownish lines, pallid. 

 Spores fusiform or oblong, .0004 to 

 .0005 of an inch long, .00016 to .0002 

 broad. 



Pileus 34 inches broad ; stem 2-4 

 inches long, 612 lines thick. 



Woods. Port Jefferson, New York. 

 August. 



The species belongs to the section 

 Edules. The reticulations of the stem 

 are so delicate that they sometimes 

 nearly disappear in drying. Peck. 



There is no report available as to the edible qualities of this form. 



(Plate CCXIII.) 



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