38 American Boletes 



5. BOLETINUS SPECTABILIS Peck 



Pileus broad, convex, 5-10 cm. broad; surface bright-red, 

 viscid when moist, at first covered with a red tomentum, be- 

 coming squamose and fading to grayish-red or yellowish-brown; 

 context whitish or pale-yellow, becoming deeper yellow on ex- 

 posure, emitting a strong, unpleasant odor; tubes adnate, con- 

 vex in mass, ochraceous, concealed at first by a reddish, glutinous 

 membrane, mouths large, angular; spores oblong-ellipsoid, 

 pointed at one end, usually with one or two nuclei, cremeous- 

 melleous or darker under a microscope, purplish-brown in mass, 

 12-14 X 5 m; stipe subequal, yellow above the annulus, red or 

 yellowish-red below, 7-12 cm. long, 8-12 mm. thick; veil tomen- 

 tose when young, remaining in the form of scales on the pileus 

 and a ring on the stipe. 



Occasional in exposed swamps from Canada to New York and 

 west to Wisconsin. 



6. BoLETiNus PICTUS Peck 



Pileus convex to expanded, gregarious, 5-8 cm. broad ; surface 

 dry or slightly viscid, imbricate-scaly, at first deep-red, later 

 becoming fawn-colored owing to the separation of the dense, 

 fibrillose tomentum into scales; margin often appendiculate ; 

 context thick, tough, creamy-yellow, changing slowly to pinkish 

 when bruised, becoming yellowish-brown with age; tubes adnate, 

 somewhat decurrent, not depressed, short, pale-yellow, some- 

 times changing to pinkish-brown when bruised, becoming dull- 

 yellowish-brown with age, mouths angular, large, compound; 

 spores ellipsoid, smooth, stramineous under a microscope, 

 ochraceous or pale-brown in mass; stipe cylindric, slightly 

 tapering downward, yellowish above, subglabrous below, squamu- 

 lose, solid or spongy within, sometimes becoming hoUowi the 

 flesh white with brownish discolorations toward the base, 5-7 

 cm. long, I cm. or less thick; veil white, thin, copious, tomentose, 

 remaining in mature plants partly attached to the margin, but 

 mostly on the stipe as a dense, tomentose covering and an 

 irregular, subapical annulus. 



Common in woods and mossy swamps in the mountainous 

 regions of eastern North America. Very beautiful and edible. 



