158 BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
STROBILOMYCES Berk. 
Hymenophore even. Tubes not easily separable from it, 
large, equal. Pileus and stem distinctly squarrose-squamose, 
the flesh tough.— Syl. Pung. Vol) VI, p. 4o. 
I have given Professor Saccardo’s emended diagnosis of 
this genus, because it expresses what appears to me to be the 
most important generic character, that is, tubes not easily 
separable from the hymenophore. By this character and by 
the tough substance the transition between Boletus and 
Polyporus is made. 
Mubes mearlyaequalpny leno thy este ele Spdascoogouce S. strobilaceus. 
Mubesshorenediaround the stems eee emer ere S. floccopus. 
Strobilomyces strobilaceus Berk. 
CONE-LIKE BoLETuUS 
Berk. Out. Brit. Fung. p. 236. Boletus strobclaceus Scop., Hym. Eur. p. 513 
Pileus hemispherical or convex, dry, covered with thick 
floccose projecting blackish or blackish-brown scales, the 
margin somewhat appendiculate with scales and fragments 
of the veil, flesh whitish, changing to reddish and then to 
blackish where wounded; tubes adnate, whitish, becoming 
brown or blackish with age, their mouths large, angular, 
changing color like the flesh; stem equal or tapering up- 
ward, sulcate at the top, floccose-tomentose, colored like the 
pileus; spores subglobose, rough, blackish-brown, .0004. to 
.0005 in. long. 
Pileus 2 to 4 in. broad; stem 3 to 5 in. long, 4 to 1o lines 
thick. 
Woods. North Carolina, Curtis. Texas. Wright. New 
York, Peck, Clinton. New England, Frost, Bennett. Ohio, 
Lea, Morgan. Wisconsin, Bundy. New Jersey, Elis. 
This species has a peculiar shaggy appearance by reason 
of its dense coat of blackish-brown floccose tomentum which 
