DESCRIPTIONS OF FUNGI. 85 



Red or Pink. 



tant, whitish, not yellow, netted with veins. 

 This is also a vai-iable species and grows in 

 woods. It is pretty, and is easily known by its 

 shape. 



BOLETUS MURRAYI. 

 Murray's Boletus. 



Cap dark red, 1 to 3 inches broad, granu- 

 lated, convex, with a slight mound or umbo, 

 margin turned upward, flesh yellow. Stem ^ 

 inch long, yellow. Tubes lemon color, angular 

 and round, irregular. The stem in our speci- 

 men was granulated like the cap. 



BOLETUS CHROMAPES = chrome yellow and foot. 

 The Chrome-footed Boletus. 



Cap tawny red, 2 to 4 inches broad, convex 

 or nearly plane, flesh white. Tubes almost 

 attached (subadnate), depressed around the 

 stem, whitish, turning a pinkish-brown color. 

 Stem equal or tapering upward, rough whitish 

 color, with reddish specks upon it, but chrome 

 yellow at the base, both outside and inside, and 

 spongy within. Stem 2 to 4 inches long, about 

 ^ inch thick. This is not a hard boletus to 

 distinguish on account of the yellow color at 



