78 BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
Boletinus paluster Px. 
MarsH BoOLETINUS 
Boletus paluster Rep. 23, p. 132, pl. 6, figs. 4 to 7 
Pileus thin, broadly convex, plane or slightly depressed, 
sometimes with a small umbo, floccose-tomentose, drzght- 
ved, tubes very large, slightly decurrent, yellow, becoming 
ochraceous or dingy ochraceous; stem slender, solid, sub- 
glabrous, red, yellowish at the top; spores pinkish-brown, 
.0003 to .00035 in. long, .00016 broad. 
Pileus 1 to) 2 in. | broad 5 stem) 1! to 21m lone, >) toyamlincs 
thick. 
Wet places and sphagnous mossy swamps. New York, 
Peck. Maine, Harvey. 
This is a small but pretty fungus which inhabits cold 
mossy swamps and is somewhat gregarious in its mode of 
growth. Sometimes it grows on decaying moss-covered 
sticks or prostrate trunks. The color of the spores is pecu- 
liar, being a dull purplish or pinkish-brown, quite unlike 
that of the other species. The mouths of the tubes are 
large for the size of the plant, and the radiating lamellz are 
plainly visible. The umbo is small and not always present. 
The red color of the pileus is apt to fade with age or to 
become tinged with yellow. 
Boletinus decipiens Px. 
DeEcEIvING BOLETINUS 
Boletus dectpiens, B. & C., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 1853, p, 14 
Pileus dry, minutely silky, whztesh-yellow or pale-buff, 
flesh buff, one-third in. thick; hymenium plane or somewhat 
concave, yellow, consisting of large, unequal flexuous radi- 
ating tubes resembling multiseptate lamella; stem equal, 
solid but spongy ; veil floccose, evanescent, adhering for a 
