PORE FUNGI 



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Boletus pallidus Pale Boletus 



Cap 5-10 cm. wide, palt or brownish white, smooth, convex to plane or slightly 

 depressed; flesh white; stem 7-12 cm. by 1-2 cm., whitish, sometimes with 

 brownish streaks, smooth; tubes more or less adnate, pale or faint yellowish, 

 changing to blue when bruised; spores yellowish brown, ellipsoid, 10-12 X 5-6/t. 

 rhe name refers to the color. 



C^n the ground in woods, summer and autumn ; excellent. 



Boletus bicolor Redyellow Boletus 



C ap 5-10 cm. wide, dark red or red-brown, paler in age and somewhat spotted 

 with yellow, smooth or somewhat powdered, convex ; flesh vellow, unchanging, 

 or changing slightly to blue where bruised; stem 3-7 cm. bv 8-12 mm., red, more 

 or less yellow above, smooth, solid ; tubes adnate, bright vellow, then ocher. slowU' 

 turning blue where bruised; spores yellow-l)rown, ellipsoid, 10-13 V 4-5/.1. The 

 name refers to the two colors of cap and stem. 



Common on the ground in woods, summer and autumn ; one of the best of the 

 genus. 



Fiiu'KE 56. Fisrui.iNW hi-;patila 

 Boletus versipellis Orange-red Boletus 



C ap 5-20 cm. wide, orange-red or bright red-brown, smooth or somewhat downy 

 or scalv, not sticky, convex, usually with fragments of the veil at the margin when 

 voung; flesh white, with a tint of green; stem 7-20 cm. by 1-4 cm., whitish or 

 ■rrayish, with irregular blackish lines or wrinkles, solid; tubes free or nearly so, 

 dull white or gray; spores pale yellowish, fusoid, 14-20 X 5-8/i. 'l"he name is 

 without obvious application. 



Common on the ground in open woods, summer and autunm ; excellent. 



