DESCEIPTIONS OF FUNGI. 95 



Yellow or Orange. 



smooth, always a light yellow. Gills decur- 

 rent, thick, distant, dichotomous, straight, light 

 yellow ; when old, ash color (cinereous.) This 

 is found in the woods from July to October. 



BOLETUS HEMICHE,YSUS = half and golden. 

 Tlie Half Golden Boletus. 



The descriptions of the Boleti are all written 

 after comparing the specimens we found with 

 those described in Professor Peck's work on 

 Boleti. We examined and analyzed all those 

 placed on the list. The descriptions written 

 by Professor Peck are so clear and faithful to 

 nature that it makes the task of calling them 

 by name much easier than any other fungi we 

 have studied. Cap bright golden yellow, 1^ 

 to 2j4 inches broad, convex plane and de- 

 pressed, with minute wooly scales (floccose 

 squamulose), and covered with a yellow powder 

 (pulverulent), sometimes with cracks (rimose). 

 Flesh thick and yellow. Tubes decurrent, yel- 

 low, becoming brown ; mouths large, angular. 

 Stem short, about 1 inch long, 3 to 6 lines 

 thick, irregular, narrowing toward the base, 

 sprinkled with a yellowish dust, tinged with 



