Fungi with Pores — Polyporaceae 



Edible Boletus 



Boletus edulis 



Cap — Convex or nearly plane; smooth, moist; compact, then 



soft. Greyish red, brownish red, or tawny brown. 4-6 



inches broad. 

 Flesh — White or yellowish; reddish beneath the skin. 

 Tubes — Convex, nearly free, long, minute, round. White, then 



yellow and greenish. 

 Stem — Short or long, straight or curving, sometimes bulbous, 



stout, covered with network. Just beneath the stem 



whitish or brownish. 2-6 inches long. 

 Habitat — Woods and open places. 



Boletus subtomentosus 



Cap — Covered with soft woolly hairs. Somewhat olive green, 

 uniform in colour under the skin, yellow chinks on the sur- 

 face. 



Flesh— White. 



Tubes — Yellow, with large angular mouths. 



Stem — Stout, rugged, with minute dots. 



Habitat — Common in woods. 



Boletus Americanus 



Cap — Thin, soft, viscid, slightly woolly on the margin when 

 young. Yellow, becoming dingy with age; sometimes 

 streaked with bright red. 1-3 inches broad. 



Flesh — Pale yellow. 



Tubes — Not free from the stem. Large, angular. Pale yellow, 

 becoming tinged with brown. 



Stem — Slender. No annulus. Yellow, brownish towards the base, 

 marked with numerous brown or reddish-brown glandular 

 dots; yellow within. l>£-2^ inches long. 



Habitat — Woods, swamps. 



POLYPORACE/E 



The fungi with pores permanently united to the surrounding 

 tissue and to each other form a large and important group, the 

 Polyporacem. With but few exceptions they are leathery, corky, 

 membranous, or woody. 



Nearly six hundred species have been reported from America. 



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