128 BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
Boletus modestus Pr. 
Mopest BoLEetTus 
Rep. 25, p. 87 
Pileus convex or nearly plane, often irregular, firm, dry, 
very minutely tomentose, yellowzsh-brown, flesh gray or 
pinkish-gray; tubes nearly plane, adnate or subdecurrent, 
the mouths angular, pale-ochraceous; stem equal, reticulated, 
brown; spores elliptical, .co04 in. long, .ooo2 broad. 
Pileus, 2) to 3 in.) broad) ;stem) 1 ¢o.2 im) long, 2atagr 
lines thick. 
Grassy ground in thin woods. New York, Pecé. 
Miss Banning finds, in Maryland, what appears to be a 
form of this species in which the part of the hymenium 
near the stem consists of lamellae, the rest of tubes. The 
species needs further investigation. 
Boletus Curtisii Berk. 
Curtis BoLetus 
Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1853, p. 13. Grevillea, Vol. I, p. 35 
Pileus hemispherical or convex, vzscose, golden-yellow, tubes 
depressed around the stem, nearly free, their mouths umber, 
at length tawny; stem slender, attenuated upward, polished, 
reticulated, straw-colored; spores ferruginous, subelliptical, 
slightly attenuated at each end. 
Pileus 1 in. or more broad; stem 2 in. long, 2 to 3 lines 
thick. 
Pine woods. North and South Carolina, Cuvrdézs. 
In the original description the stem of this species is said 
to be hollow. The viscose pellicle indicates a relationship 
to the Viscipelles, with which the reticulated stem does not 
harmonize. The nearly free tubes point toward the Edules 
