138 BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
Boletus limatulus Frost 
PoLtisHED BoLEtTuUS 
Bull. Buff. Soc. 1874, p. 104 
Pileus nearly flat, thin, glabrous, vzsczd when mozst, some- 
what polished and shining when dry, rich yellowish-brown, 
flesh reddesh zn the pileus, darker in the stem; tubes de- 
pressed around the stem, greenish-yellow, their mouths yel- 
lowish-brown; stem small, subbulbous, colored like the pileus; 
spores .0005 to .0006 in. long, .o0016 to .o002 broad. 
PUGWS Tho 2,5 tal, loroacl, 
Woods. New England, Frost. 
By the differently colored tube mouths, this species ap- 
proaches those of the next following tribe, but it is placed 
here because these are not red or reddish. 
LURIDI 
Stratum of tubes rounded toward the stem and free, their 
mouths at first closed and red. Pileus compact, then soft, 
pulvinate, the flesh juicy, changeable. Stem stout, at first 
short, bulbiform, then elongated and subequal, subreticu- 
lated or dotted. 
Growing especially in frondose woods. Very poisonous. 
In this tribe the tubes and their mouths are differently 
colored, the latter being red or some shade of red. By this 
character the species are easily distinguished from those of 
other tribes. 
Flesh distinctly changing color where wounded... 1 
Flesh not at all or scarcely changing color where 
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