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The gills are narrow, thick and blunt on the edge. They are so much 

 branched and connected by cross veins that m\ich of the hymenial sur- 

 face has a coarsely reticulated appearance. Both the gills and the inter- 

 spaces are ochraceous or yellow ochraceous. The stem is very short and 

 maybe either glabrous or hairy. In some cases it is elongated andsome- 

 what curved or flexuous and extended like a horizontal root among 

 fallen leaves. The cap is 2 to 4 in. broad at the top, and 3 to 6 

 in. long. The plants are gregarious and grow in woods from July to 

 September. My trial of its edible qualities was very satisfactory and I 

 consider it a very good mushroom for the table. 



Boletinus pictus Pk. ^ 

 Painted Boletinus 



PLATE 61 fig. 1-5 



Pileus convex or nearly plane, at first covered with a red fibrillose 

 tomentum, soon spotted with red fibrillose scales, flesh yellowish; tubes 

 tenacious, adnate, pale yellow becoming darker or ochraceous with age, 

 their mouths rather large, angular ; stem cyhndric, solid, shghtly and 

 evanescently annulate by the remains of the fibrillose or webby veil, yel- 

 low and glabrous above the annulus, clothed and colored like the pileus 

 below it; spores ochraceous, .00035 ^^ .00045 ^^- long, .00016 to .0002 

 broad. ' • 



The painted Boletinus is a beautiful and easily recognized species. The 

 cap of the young plant is wholly covered by a red fibrillose tomentum 

 which soon separates into tufts or scales and reveals the yellowish color 

 of the surface beneath. In the very young plant the tomentum of the 

 cap is continuous with that of the stem and cmceals the young tubes. 

 This connecting part of the tomentum is usually of a paler or grayer color 

 than the rest. With the expansion of the cap it separates from the mar- 

 gin and clings to the stem forming a kind of fibrillose or webby collar 

 around it. This collar is apt to disappear with age. The flesh of the cap 

 is yellowish and when cut or broken and exposed to the air it sometimes 

 slowly assumes a dull reddish color. 



The tubes of the young plant are pale yellow, but when mature they 

 are ochraceous. Their mouths are angular and the edges of the dissepi- 

 ments are uneven. The stem is cylindric or sometimes slightly thicker 

 at the base than at the top. It is yellow at the top but colored and 

 clothed like the cap below the sUght collar. The c^pis 2 to 4 in. broad ; 

 the §t§m 1.5 to I in. long, 3 to 6 lines thipk, The specie? ipbabit§ 



