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Plant gregarious, pilens 4"-6'' broad. Trunks of dead willows, 

 Salix discolor. Center, October. 



Boletus bicolor n. sjp. 



Pileus fleshy, firm, convex, dry, nearly smooth or prninose- 

 tomentose, dark red, tubes plane, attached, small, angular, sub- 

 compound, short, bright yellow becoming ochraceous, slightly 

 changing to blue when wounded ; stem subequal, firm, solid, dark 

 red, sometimes yellow at the top; spores narrowly elliptical, -g^Vo' 

 long ; flesh bright yellow, unchanging when wounded ; taste 

 pleasant. 



Plant closely gregarious 2' high, pileus 2' broad, stem 4"-6" tliick. 

 G-round in open woods. Sandlake. August. (Plate 2, figs. 5-8.) 



The tubes are not more than 1" long in our specimens Allied to 

 B. sulfareus, but very different in color. 



Boletus gracilis n. sp. 



Pileus convex, dry, srriooth or most minutely tomentose, ochra- 

 ceous-brown ; tubes plane, subfree or depressed about the stipe, 

 small, subrotund, whitish then pale flesh-colored ; stem slender, 

 equal or slightly tapering upward, solid, marked, with slender, 

 elevated lines which anastomose and form very long narrow reticu- 

 lations ; spores flesh-colored, ^ ^^ q ' long. 



Plant 4'-6' high, pileus 2' broad, stem 3"-4" thick. Ground in 

 woods. Garrisons and Greig. June. September. 



Closely allied to B. felleus, but the plant is much more slender, 

 and the character of the reticulations is quite difiBrent. 



POLYPOEUS POEIPES Fr. 



Ground. E^ew Baltimore, Howe. Sandlake. August. A 

 large tufted species with the pores running far down on the stipe. 



POLYPOKUS FRONDOSUS Ft. 



Buffalo. Clinton. 



POLYPORUS GLOMEEATUS n. SJp. 



Pileus of a corky texture, densely imbricated, nearly plane, 

 uneven, minutely velvety-tomentose, dark tawny, similarly colored 

 within and obscurely zonate, united behind in a large irregular 

 mass; pores nearly plane, small, angular, greenish-yellow with 

 purple tints, the mouths whitish inclining to yellow, at length 

 dentate-lacerate ; spores bright yellow, globose, -^-^' in diameter. 



Plant forming masses a foot long and 2' or 3' thick, the pilei 

 l'-1.5' long, 2' or more broad. 



