BOLETUS SORDIDUS = dingy.
The Dingy-colored Boletus.
Cap a dingy, dark brown, about 2 inches broad, flesh white, tinged with red. Tubes long, nearly free, ⅜ inch long, white, turning a dark bluish-green. Stem tapering toward apex, 2½ inches long, curved, solid, ½ inch thick, brownish, marked with darker streaks. The
mouths of tubes were angular, and the stem striate in our specimen. Found in the woods in August.
BOLETUS SUBLUTEUS = almost, and yellow.
The Small Yellow Boletus.
Cap brownish yellow, 1½ 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 1½ to 2½ 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 (glandules). Ring almost soft, glutinous, at first concealing the tubes, then collapsing and forming 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.
BOLETUS AFFINIS = related.
The Related Boletus.
Cap reddish-brown, fading to yellow, 2 to 4 inches broad, convex above and almost plane, nearly smooth, flesh white. Tubes plane or convex, adnate or slightly compressed around the stem, at first white and stuffed, then yellowish, turning to rusty ochraceous when wounded. Stem 1½ to 3 inches long, 4 to 8 lines thick, nearly equal, even, smooth, paler than the cap. Our specimen had a few yellowish spots on the cap, and is called Var. maculosus. (Edible.)
PAXILLUS LEPTOPUS = thin and a foot.
The Thin-stemmed Paxillus.
This is the only specimen of the genus Paxillus that we have found. There is another species, P. involutus, which Professor Peck says is edible. Stevenson says that P. leptopus is a remarkable species, that it is distinguished from P. involutus by having the gills simple at the base, not united by interlacing or transverse veins (anastomosing). Cap was a light brownish-yellow; it varies from 1½ to 3 inches in
breadth, eccentric or lateral, depressed in the middle, dry, covered with dense down, soon torn into scales, which are a dingy yellow. Flesh yellow. Stem short, scarcely 1 inch, tapering downward, yellow inside. Gills decurrent, tense and straight, crowded, narrow, yellowish, then darker in color. It was growing on the ground in September.