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Tubes brown, becoming cinnamon. .....-....... B. variegatus. 
fubesmot hayvinerthese Colonsaece saa eee I 
1. Flesh or tubes changing to blue where wounded .... 2 
ify IMNSS)ay Ole THUIOSS mmole Claavnrertover 80 IONS 5 So ccesbesocoes 5 
2. Stembelabrous ere vags tyne ow sieve helo atsnedaled aamerees 3 
7 SHEN MOE BIO KOWIS Ta '5 Abs Cbodddooon boson sous 4 
3. Flesh yellow under the cuticle ..... Aalaokidcolt ad so d0s6 B. rubeus. 
Zusllesh red under the;cuticle sy) mene ec iris |. B. chrysenteron: 
Als SHON WEIS ENG WINS DBISS) 22's sooaboosoo8 cate B. strizepes. 
4. Stem with a reddish bloom or scurf........... B. radicans. 
4. Stem with brown dot-like scales .............. B. mutabilis, 
Kn AMOS Vedavtslsio,, iecoraaye Wel 665 26d seaecsdoocas B. Roxane. 
pena be Suyelll ware tere oer iateter ciclivcie tem yaterey ited eV Ar aeuolenr means 6 
6. Tube mouths large and angular..... Sh ore ayetae B. subtomentosus. 
Or Mubetmonths minute eee eer ee B. spadiceus. 
Boletus variegzatus Swartz 
VARIEGATED BOLETUS 
Hym. Eur. p. 501. Syl. Fung. Vol. VI,p.12. Soletus reticulatus, Syn. Fung 
Car. 862, Consp. Fung. p. 240 
Pileus at first convex, then plane, obtuse, moist, sprinkled 
with superficial fasciculate-hatry squamules, dark-yellow, the 
acute margin at first flocculose, flesh yellow, here and there 
becoming blue; tubes adnate, unequal, minute, dvowz, then 
cimnamon, stem firm, equal, even, dark-yellow, sometimes 
reddish ; spores oblong-ellipsoid, hyaline or very pale yellow- 
ish, .0003 to .0004 in. long, .coor2 to .coo16 broad. 
Pileus 2 to 5 in. broad; stem 2 to 3 in. long, 6 lines thick. 
Woods, especially of pine. North Carolina, Cuzrdézs, 
Schweimztz. California, Harkness, Moore. Rhode Island, 
Bennett. 
In North Carolina the plant is said to occur in sphagnous 
ground. European authors disagree as to the character of 
the spores. According to W. G. Smith they are “oval, 
greenish-ochre,” .ooo12 X .00008. 
