142 BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
quickly changing to blue where wounded; tubes plane or 
slightly convex, nearly free, yellow, their mouths small, 
round, brownish-orange, becoming darker or blackish with 
age, changing promptly to blue where wounded; stem sub- 
equal, firm, evez, paler than the pileus; spores ochraceous- 
brown, .0004 to .0005 in. long, .c0016 to .c002 broad. 
Var. Spraguer. (Boletus Spraguet Frost, Bull. Buff. Soc. 
p- 102.) Stem yellow above, minutely velvety below. 
Pileus 3 to 5 in. broad; stem 2 to 4 in. long, 4 to 10 
lines thick. 
Woods. New York, Peck. Ohio, Morgan. New Eng- 
land, Frost. 
The species is separated from B. lurzdus by its dry pileus, 
white flesh, even stem, which is neither reticulated nor 
dotted, and by its smaller spores. I cannot distinguish 
specimens of B. Spraguez received from Mr. Frost, from this 
species. The name is scarcely appropriate, for specimens 
are not always badly infested by larve. 
Boletus subvelutipes wn. sp. 
VELVETY-STEMMED BOLETUS 
Pileus convex, firm, subglabrous, yellowish-brown or red- 
dish-brown, flesh whitish, both it and the tubes changing to 
blue where wounded; tubes plane or slightly convex, nearly 
free, yellowish, their mouths small, brownish-red; stem equal 
or slightly tapering upward, firm, even, somewhat pruinose 
above, velvety with a hatry tomentum toward the base, yellow 
at the top, reddish-brown below, varied with red and yellow 
within; spores, .0006 to .0007 in. long, .o002 to .00025 
broad. . 
Pileus 2 to 3 in. broad; stem 2 to 3 in. long, 4 to 6 lines 
thick. 
Woods. New York, Peck. 
