1 6 American Boletes 



small, I cm. long, light-salmon-yellow changing to brownish- 

 yellow, mouths circular, edges thin; spores subellipsoid, smooth, 

 ferruginous, 12-13 X 5-7 m; stipe subcylindric, slender, attenuate 

 above, straw-colored or bright-yellow, nearly white at the base, 

 viscid, glabrous, polished, reticulate, usually hollow, 2-10 cm. 

 long, 0.5-0.8 cm. thick. 



Occasional in pine woods from Kentucky to South Carolina, 

 Alabama, and Mississippi. 



21. Ceriomyces inflexus (Peck) Murrill 



Pileus convex, sometimes cespitose, 2.5-4 cni- broad ;^ surface 

 glabrous, viscid when wet, yellow or olivaceous becoming och- 

 raceous-brown, often reddish on the disk; margin thin, inflexed, 

 concealing the marginal tubes; context white, unchanging, taste 

 mild; tubes adnate, somewhat depressed, yellowish, becoming 

 dingy-yellow with age and somewhat reddish-brown when 

 injured, rather long, mouths 3-4 to a mm., circular, sometimes 

 dotted with reddish granules; spores oblong, smooth, yellowish- 

 brown, 10-12 X 4-5 Ai; stipe rather slend«r, curved, tapering 

 above, 5-7 cm. long, 0.4-0.8 cm. thick, viscid, reddish-brown with 

 dark fibrils or dots, pale-yellowish above and below, solid, 

 white to pale-yellowish within. 



Occasional in open woods from Connecticut to North Carolina 

 and Kentucky. 



22. Ceriomyces Atkinsonianus Murrill 



Pileus convex to nearly plane, 9-14 cm. broad, about 2.5 cm. 

 thick; surface smooth, glabrous, viscid when wet, sometimes 

 becoming rimose-areolate, leather-colored to fulvous, often 

 with a pinkish tint; margin inrolled when young, extending 

 3 mm. beyond the tubes, entire at first, slightly hoary; context 

 white, becoming pale-rose-colored when wounded, sweet to the 

 taste; tubes adnate, plane in mass, becoming slightly depressed 

 near the stipe, straw-colored in young plants, not changing when 

 wounded, becoming olivaceous with age owing to the ripening 

 of the spores, mouths small, circular, concolorous, 4-5 to a mm., 

 not stuffed when young, edges thin, entire; spores fusiform, 

 smooth, dark-olivaceous to dull-brownish in mass, 11-13 X 4-5 m; 

 stipe tapering upward, somewhat bulbous at the base, glabrous, 

 even, subconcolorous, cartilaginous, pale-yellow at the apex, 

 solid, white and unchanging within, about 9-12 cm. long and 

 1-3 cm. thick. 



