Q2 BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM. 
of the pileus in this species, B. luteus and B. Elbenszs are 
similar and resemble little patches of innate brownish 
fibrils. 
Boletus flavidus Fr. 
PALE-VELLOW BOLETUS 
Hym. Eur. p. 498. Syl. Fung. Vol. VI, p.4. Goletus velatus Pers. Myc. Eur. 
Vols ll; pi125; tab) 20) mes. 0) to: 
Pileus thin, gibbous, then plane, viscose, livid, yellowish, 
flesh palized, tubes decurrent, with large angular compound 
mouths, dirty yellowish; stem slender, subequal, pallid, 
sprinkled with fugaccous glandules above the entirely viscose 
annulus ; spores oblong-ellipsoid, straight, subhyaline, .0003 
to .coo4 in. long, .c0014 to .o0016 broad. 
Pileus 1 to) 2 in) broad stem) 2) to 3) in tong, 2 tomamlines 
thick. 
Pine woods and swamps. Pennsylvania, Schwezzz¢z. North 
Carolina, Curtes. New England, frost. California, Hark- 
ness, Moore. Rhode Island, Bennett. 
Fries says that this species is more slender than its allies 
and differs from them all in its merely glutinous veil. The 
veil of B. velatus, which species he considers the same as 
this, is described as mucous and at first concealing the tubes, 
but in the adult plant remaining as a brown spot on the 
stem. The latter is not represented in Persoon’s figure as 
dotted. 
According to Dr. Curtis the plant is edible. 
B. Stem not annulate. 
a Stem glandular-dotted. 
Boletus Americanus Px. 
AMERICAN BOLETUS 
Bull. N. Y. S. Mus. 2, p. 62. Boletus flavidus Rep. 23, p. 129. Cat. Buff. 
Plants, p. 118. 
Pileus thin, convex or nearly plane, sometimes umbonate, 
