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BOLETACEAE<br />
more or less pinkish when wounded, taste very bitter, tubes adnate, depressed<br />
around the stipe, at first white, becoming rosy flesh colored, becoming brown-<br />
ish when bruised, stuffed when young, stipe 1 J/i-4% in. long, J/2-2<br />
in. thick,<br />
equal or tapering upward, sometimes bulbous at the base, more or less reticu-<br />
late, concolorous with the pileus or nearly so. spores ellipsoid-fusiform,<br />
smooth, rose colored (9) 10-14 (17) X 3-4.5 /x-<br />
Solitary or gregarious in woods and open places. June-Oct.<br />
The rose colored tubes, reticulate stipe, and bitter taste are the distin-<br />
guishing characters of this species. Occasionally the bitter taste may be lacking.<br />
It is one of the more common species and sometimes reaches a very large size.<br />
T. plumbeoviolaceus (Snell) Snell has been confused with it or regarded as a<br />
variety, but it seems to be a distinct species with violaceous colors and very<br />
firm consistency, and matures rather slowly.<br />
XEROCOMUS BADIUS (Fr.) Klihner ex Gilbert Edible<br />
Figures 338, 339, page 233<br />
PILEUS 2-3 in. broad, convex to nearly plane, bay-brown to chestnut-<br />
brown, sometimes tinged olivaceous, viscid, minutely tomentose. flesh yellow-<br />
ish, turning blue when wounded, especially near the tubes, then the blue fading,<br />
mild. TUBES adnate or depressed around the stipe, pale greenish yellow, becom-<br />
ing blue when wounded, stipe 2-3)/^ in. long, Vi-%<br />
^^- thick, nearly equal,<br />
colored Hke the pileus, sometimes yellow at the apex, white mycehoid at base,<br />
more or less streaked with darker hnes, sohd. spores olive-brown, elHpsoid-<br />
fusiform, smooth, 10-15 X 3.5-5.0 jx.<br />
Singly or gregarious on the ground, usually associated with pine. June-<br />
Sept.<br />
The deep brown pileus and stipe and the greenish yellow pores that turn<br />
blue when wounded are the chief distinguishing characters of this species. It is<br />
not very common.<br />
XEROCOMUS CHRYSENTERON (Bull, ex Fr.) Quel. Doubtful<br />
Figures 345, 346, page 235<br />
PILEUS 1-2 in. broad, convex to nearly plane, olive-brown to reddish<br />
brown, dry, felty-tomentose, becoming cracked and showing reddish in the<br />
cracks, flesh yellowish, slightly acid, tubes adnate to depressed, greenish<br />
yellow, changing to blue when wounded, rather large, stipe 1-1 1/2 in. long, %yg<br />
in. thick, equal or nearly so, striate, reddish or yellowish, soHd, rather tough<br />
and rigid, spores yellow-brown, ellipsoid-fusiform, smooth, 10-14 X (3) 4-<br />
5.5 M.<br />
Usually soHtary on the ground or on rotten wood. June-Oct.<br />
This species is common and variable. The felty pileus with cracks showing<br />
red, the large greenish pores that change to blue, and the slender, tough stipe<br />
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