Boletus subtomentosus L. 1753

Ceriomyces subtomentosus (L.) Murrill, Mycologia 1: 153. 1909
Boletus subtonientostis'L,. Sp. Pi. 1178. 1753.
Ceriomyces jnjubinus procerus Batt. Fung. Hist. 64. 1755.
Boletus crassipes Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. pL 112. 1763.
? Boletus communis Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 393, B. 1788.
Leccmum subtom-entostim S. F. Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. PI. 1 : 647. 1821.
Rostkoviies subtomen'tosiis P. Karst. Rev. Myc. Z^ : 16. 1881.
Versipellis subtomentosus Qu61. Ench. Fung. 158. 1886.
Xerocomus subtomentosus Qu61. Fl. Myc. Fr. 418. 1888.
'^Boletus aluiaceus Morgan ; Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 8 : 109. 1889. (Type from Kentucky.)
Pileus convex to expanded, 4-10 cm. broad ; surface dry, tomentose, often rimoseareolate, yellowish-brown, reddish-brown or subolivaceous ; margin entire, often involute when young : context white or yellowish, unchanging, yellow beneath the cuticle, taste mild ; tubes adnate or slightly depressed, often becoming nearly free, yellow, unchanging when wounded, greenish-yellow at the maturity of the spores, mouths large, irregular, sometimes compound, usually angular : spores greenish when fresh, fading to yellowishbrown, subfusiform, smooth, 10-12 X 4-5 /^ : stipe ventricose or nearly equal, tapering below, furfuraceous to glabrous, even, or wholly or partially reticulate, pale-yellow or slightly brownish, often flavous above, reddish-brown when bruised, solid, white or yellowish within, 4.6 cm. long, 0.5-1.5 cm. thick.
Type locality : Port Jefferson, New York.
Habitat : Deciduous woods.
Distribution : Temperate North America and Europe.