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the hymenial surface uwxeven with trregular alveolar depres- 
stons, stem very rough with the margins of rather coarse sub- 
reticular depressions, the reticulations bright red above with 
yellow stains; spores yellowish-brown, .0005 to .c006 in. 
long, .00016 to .c002 broad. 
Pileus 3 to 6 in. broad; stem 3 to 4 in. long, g lines thick. 
Damp woods. New England, Frost. 
In Grevillea, vol. I, p. 36, the specimens collected by 
Sprague and originally named Boletus alveolatus B. & C. are 
said to belong to B. edulzs or a very nearly allied species. 
They were not, therefore, published under the name given. 
It is presumable that the plant described and published 
by Mr. Frost was regarded by him as the same thing. But 
the bright color of the pileus, the adnate tubes with maroon 
colored mouths, the roughened stem and yellowish-brown 
spores all indicate a species distinct from B. edulzs. I have 
seen no specimens, but have admitted the species as de- 
scribed by Mr. Frost. 
Boletus luridus Scuzrr. 
Lurip BoLEetus 
Hym. Eur. p. 511. Syl. Fung. Vol. VI, p. 34 
Pileus convex, tomentose, drown-olivaceous, then some- 
what viscose, fuliginose, flesh yellow, changing to blue where 
wounded; tubes free, yellow, becoming greenish, their 
mouths round, vermilion, decomzng orange, stem stout, ver- 
milion, somewhat orange at the top, veteculate or punctate, 
spores greenish-gray, .0006 in. long, .00035 broad. 
Pileus 2 to 4 in. broad; stem 2 to 3 in. long. ? 
Woods. North Carolina, Schweznztz, Curtzs. Pennsyl- 
vania, Schwenztz. New England, Frost, Bennett. Cali- 
fornia, Harkness, Moore. 
The lurid Boletus, though pleasant to the taste, is reputed 
very poisonous. Loletus rubeolarzus Pers., having a short 
