DESCKIPTIONS OF FUNGI. 119 



Broum. 



among dead leaves. There were oak trees all 

 around and a great many pines. The weather 

 had been rainy, and it was pale-colored and 

 looked water-soaked. 



TRICHOLOMA IMBRICATA = a tile. 

 The Imbricated Tricholoma. 



Cap reddish-brown, 3 inches broad, thick, 

 fleshy, broadly convex, and then flattened, ob- 

 tuse, dry, continuous at disc, but torn into 

 scales and fibrillose toward the margin ; flesh 

 firm, white. Stem solid, stout, sometimes 

 short, and conico-bulbous, 1| to 2 inches long, 

 and as much as 1 inch thick, sometimes longer 

 and almost equal ; white at apex. Gills slightly 

 emarginate, almost adnate, somewhat crowded, 

 about 3 inches broad, wholly white when young, 

 at length reddish. It grows either scattered or 

 in groups. It is found in pine woods in Sep- 

 tember and I^ovember. 



BOLETUS ORNATIPES = ornate and foot. 

 The Ornate-stemmed Boletus. 



Cap 2 to 5 inches broad, yellowish-brown, 

 convex, dry, firm, glabrous or minutely tomen- 

 tose, flesh yellow or pale yellow. Tubes ad- 



