BOLETI OF THE UNITED STATES Io! 
bovenus, of which it may possibly be a variety, but its yellow 
flesh and the colors ascribed to the tubes and spores require 
its separation. Rev. C. J. Curtis sends notes of a species 
found by him in North Carolina, which agrees with this in 
its characters so far as noted. 
Boletus bovinus L. 
Bovine BoLetus 
Hym. Eur. p. 499. Syl. Fung. Vol. VI, p. 6 
Pileus nearly plane, glabrous, viscid, pale-yellow, flesh 
white, tubes very short, subdecurrent, their mouths com- 
pound, pale-yellow or grayish, becoming ferruginous ; stem 
equal, even, colored like the pileus ; spores fusiform, dingy 
greenish-ochre, .0003 to .o004 in. long, .co012 to .oco16 
broad. 
Pileus 2 to 3 in. broad; stem 1.5 to 2 in. long, sometimes 
caespitose. : 
Pine woods. North Carolina, Schweznztz, Curtzs. Penn- 
sylvania, Schwezuztz. New England, Frost, Palmer, Bennett. 
The shallow tubes, 2 to 3 lines long, are said to resemble 
the pores of Merulius lacrymans. The species is recorded 
edible by Curtis, Gillet and Palmer. 
Boletus rubinellus Px. 
ReppisH BoLerus 
INep: 32, p. 33. Bull Ne Yo S: Mus: 2 p: 15, pl: 2, figs. 20'to 22 
Pileus broadly conical or convex, viscid when moist, sub- 
tomentose or slightly pubescent when dry, ved fading to 
yellow on the margzn, flesh whitish or yellowish, taste mz/d ; 
tubes adnate or slightly depressed around the stem, dingy- 
reddish, becoming subferruginous ; stem equal, slender, even, 
colored like the tubes, yellow wzthin, sometimes yellow at 
