98 BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
to dingy-tawny, the margin inflexed, flesh white or tinged 
with yellow; tubes short, nearly plane, adnate or slightly 
depressed around the stem, small, subrotund, at first whitish, 
“becoming dingy-ochraceous; stem whitish, ot dotted or 
rarely with a few very minute inconspicuous dots at the apex, 
very short; spores subfusiform, .0003 in. long, .ooo12 broad. 
Pileus 1.5 to 2.5, in. broad; stems toa in, lonewaatoss 
lines thick. 
Sandy soil in pine groves and woods. New England, 
Frost. New York, Peck. 
The species is closely related to B. granulatus, from which 
it differs especially in its darker colored pileus, more copious 
gluten, shorter stem and the almost entire absence of granu- 
les from the tube mouths and stem. In the rare instances 
in which these are present they are extremely minute and 
inconspicuous. The plant occurs very late in the season and 
the pileus appears as if enveloped in slime and resting stem- 
less on the ground. 
Boletus collinitus Fr. 
SMEARED BOLETUS 
Hym. Eur. p. 498. Syl. Fung. Vol. VI, p. 5 
Pileus convex, even, becoming pale when the brown gluten 
separates, flesh white; tubes adnate, elongated, naked, ¢he 
mouths two-parted, pallid, becoming yellow; stem firm, often 
tapering downwards, somewhat reticulate with appressed 
sguamules, white, becoming brown. 
Woods of pine or fir. North Carolina, Curtzs. New 
England, /ost. 
I have seen no specimens of this apparently rare species. 
It is said to be solitary in its mode of growth and to resem- 
ble B. duteus in size and color, but to be distinct from it by 
its ringless dotless stem. Dr. Curtis records it as edible. 
