REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 
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Pileus 1.5 to 3 in. broad; stem 1.5 to 2.5 in. long, 3 to 5 lines thick. 
Woods and copses. Port Jefferson. July. 
This species bears a strong resemblance to B. subtomentosns, with 
which it doubtless has been confused. The strong point of distinc¬ 
tion is in the reticulated stem, which should place it among the Cal- 
opodes. In large specimens these coarse reticulations extend to the 
base of the stem, in smaller ones they are often limited to the upper 
part. The spores when first dropped on white paper are dark green 
or olive green, but they fade to a yellowish-brown, barely tinted with 
green. 
Boletus rubropunctus n. sp. 
Pileus convex, glabrous, reddish-brown, flesh yellowish, unchange¬ 
able; tubes nearly plane, depressed about the stem, their mouths 
small, round, bright golden yellow, not changing color where 
bruised; stem firm, solid, tapering upward, yellow, punctate with red¬ 
dish dots or squamules; spores olive-green, .0005 in. long, .00016 to 
.0002 broad. 
Pileus 1 to 2 in. broad; stem 1 to 2 in. long, 3 to 6 lines thick. 
Woods. Port Jefferson. July. Cold Spring Harbor. H. C. 
Beardslee. 
This is a pretty boletus, well marked by the red dots of the stem. 
It is apparently a very rare species. B. radicans is said to have the 
stem sprinkled with red particles, but that is a larger plant with the 
margin of the pileus persistently involute or incurved and with a 
radicating stem, characters which are not shown by our fungus. 
Polyp or us umbellatus Fr. 
Gouverneur, St. Lawrence county. Mrs. E. C. Anthony. 
Hydnum fennicum Karst. 
Woods, on naked soil or among fallen leaves. Port Jefferson. 
July. • ! 
Our plant differs in some respects from the description of the Euro- 
pean species, but its general correspondence is so close that it can 
scarcely be specifically distinct. The European fungus is said to have 
an acerb taste, approaching, in this respect. H. acre. But this species 
