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but it is apparently well marked by the change in the color 
of the flesh. Specimens not seen. 
Boletus salmonicolor Frosr 
SALMON-COLORED BOLETUS 
Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. 1874, p. 100. 
Pileus convex, soft, very glutinous, brownish or tawny- 
white with a faint tinge of red, wine color when dry, the 
margin thin, flesh tenged weth red; tubes simple, even, angu- 
lar, adnate, pale salmon color; stem small, dotted above with 
bright ferruginous red, sordid below, annulus dzxgy salmon 
color, spores .00032 in. long, .coo1 broad. 
Borders of pine woods. New England, /7vos¢. 
Apparently a distinct species. No specimens seen. 
Boletus elegans Scuum. 
ELEGANT BOLETUS 
Hym. Eur., p. 497. Syl. Fung. Vol. VI, p. 3. 
Pileus convex or plane, viscose, golden-yellow or somewhat 
ferruginous, flesh pale-yellow ; tubes decurrent, golden or 
sulphur-yellow, the mouths minute, simple; stem unequal, 
firm, golden or rufescent, dotted above the fugacious white or 
pale-yellowtsh annulus. 
Pileus 3 to 4.5 in. broad; stem 2 to 4 in. long. 
Woods, especially under or near larch trees. North 
Carolina, Curtzs. Wisconsin, Buxdy. Minnesota, Johnson. 
I have seen no specimens of this species. In Sylloge the 
spores are said to be ellipsoid or oblong-ellipsoid, .0003 to 
.00035 in. long, .ocoo12 to .o0018 broad. According to 
Cordier and Gillet, the species is edible though not delicate. 
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