Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...cannot be distinguished from the typical form. In drying, the margin of the pileus has a tendency to curve upwards. The hairy tufts or squamules are very minute and sometimes appear almost granular. The species seems intermediate between B. variegatus and B. sulphureus, with the latter of which the variety connects it. Boletus striaepes Sbob. Striate-stemmed Boletus Hym. Eur. p. 502. Syl. Fung. Vol. VI, p. 13 Pileus convex or plane, soft, silky, olivaceous, the cuticle ferruginous within, flesh white, yellow next the tubes, sparingly changing to blue; tubes adnate, greenish, their mouths minute, angular, yellow; stem firm, curved, marked with brownish-black striatious, yellow, velvety and brownish-rufescentat the base; spores.0004 to.0005 in. long, .00016 broad. Pine and oak woods. Minnesota, Johnson. I have seen no specimens of this species which is recorded from but one locality in our country. The character, "flesh sparingly changing to blue" is given on the authority of Rev. M. J. Berkeley. Boletus chrysenteron Fe. Golden-flesh Boletus. Red-cracked Boletus Hym. Eur. p. 502. Syl. Fung. Vol. VI, p. 14 Pileus convex or plane, soft, floccose-squamulose, often rimose areolate, brown or brick-red, flesh yellow, red beneath the cuticle, often slightly changing to blue where wounded; tubes subadnate, greenish-yellow, changing to blue where wounded; their mouths rather large, angular, unequal; stem subequal, rigid, fibrous-striate, red or pale-yellow; spores fusiform, pale-brown, .00045 to.0005 in. long, .00016 to.0002 broad. Pileus 1 to 3 in. broad; stem 1 to 3 in. long, 3 to 6 lines thick. Woods and mossy banks. North Carolina, Curtis. New York, Peck. New England, Frost. Ohio, Morgan. Minnesota, Johnson. Wisconsin, Bundy. The species...