DESCRIPTIONS OP FUNGI. 127 



Brown_ 



mouths of tubes were angular, and the stem 

 striate in our specimen. Found in the woods 

 in August. 



BOLETUS SUBLUTEUS = almost, and yeUow. 

 The Small Yellow Boletus. 



Cap brownish yellow, Ig to 3 inches broad, 

 convex or nearly plane, viscid or glutinous when 

 moist, often obscurely streaked (virgate). 

 Flesh whitish or dull yellowish. Tubes plane 

 or convex, adnate, small, nearly round, yellow, 

 becoming ochraceous. Stem IJ to 2| inches 

 long, 2 to 4 lines thick, equal, slender, pale or 

 yellowish, dotted above and below the ring with 

 reddish, brownish, moist, or sticky dots (gland- 

 ules). Ring almost soft, glutinous, at first 

 concealing the tubes, then collapsing and form- 

 ing a narrow whitish or brownish band around 

 the stem. Our Boletus had a brownish ring. 

 The cap was covered with a sticky, skin-like 

 layer, called the pellicle or cuticle, both terms 

 having the same meaning. 



