Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi

3. BOLETUS ILLUDENS, 439

LACERI´PEDES—lacerated stem. Stem elongated, coarsely pitted or deeply and lacunosely reticulated in small hollows, the ridges somewhat intumescent in wet weather and more or less lacerated, giving a rough or shaggy appearance to the stem. The species of this tribe are few, very closely allied and so far as known are peculiar to this country. Pileus viscid 1 Pileus dry B. Russelli