DESCRIPTIONS OF FUNGI. 103 



Oray. 



to 8 inches broad, convex or nearly plane, 

 glabrous, even, flesh white, turning to flesh or 

 pink color when wounded. Taste bitter, tubes 

 adnate, long, depressed around the stem, 

 crowded. Stem variable, 2 to 4 inches long, 

 about 5^ to 1 inch thick, equal or tapering, re- 

 ticulated above, bulbous or enlarged at base, 

 a little paler than the pileus. The Boleti we 

 found grew in great numbers, in difierent lo- 

 calities, and were of all sizes. The color of 

 the reticulations was a brownish-gray. 



BOLETUS GKISEUS = gray. 

 The Gray Boletus. 



Cap dark gray, 2 to 4 inches broad, broadly 

 convex, smooth, soft, silky, flesh whitish. Tubes 

 adnate, slightly depressed, mouths small. 

 Stem 2 to 4 inches long, 3 to 6 lines thick, 

 yellowish, much reticulated, sometimes reddish 

 toward the base. Our plant was of a brown- 

 ish color at base, and grew in the month of 

 September. 



PSALLIOTA CAMPESTRIS = a field. 

 The Common Mushroom. 



There are several edible species of the genus 

 Psalliota, chiefly the Field or Common Mush- 



