150 BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
It presents no appearance of the colored dot-like squamules 
which are a constant and characteristic feature of that species. 
Boletus chromapes Frost 
CHROME-FOOTED BOLETUS 
Bull. Buff. Soc. 1874, p. 105 
Pileus convex or nearly plane, slightly and sometimes 
fasciculately tomentose, pale-red, flesh white, unchangeable; 
tubes subadnate, more or less depressed around the stem, 
white or whitish, becoming brown; stem equal or slightly 
tapering upward, scabrous-punctate, whitish or pallid, chrome- 
yellow at the base both without and within, sometimes red- 
dish above; spores oblong, .00045 to .00055 in. long, .oo016 
to .0002 broad. 
Pileus 2 to 4 in. broad; stem 2 to 4 in. long, 4 to 6 lines 
thick. 
Woods. New England, frost. New York, Peck. 
The yellow base of the stem appears to be a peculiar and 
constant character by which the species may easily be re- 
cognized. It imitates Loletus peperatus in this respect, but 
in every thing else it is very distinct from that plant. Some- 
times the stem is so badly infested by larve that it is diff- 
cult to procure a sound specimen. The spores have a sub- 
ferruginous color with a slight incarnate tint, but the scab- 
rous-dotted stem indicates a relationship with B. scaber. 
Through this species, Boletus conzcus and B. graczlis, the 
Versipelles and the Hyporhodii appear to run together. In 
the Catalogue of Plants of Amherst the specific name is 
‘““chromapus.” It would be more in accordance with present 
custom to write it ‘chromopus.” 
