Sutorius eximius (Peck) Halling, Nuhn & Osmundson 2012

Ceriomyces eximius (Peck) Murrill, Mycologia 1 : 148. 1909
Boletus rohtistus Frost, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 2 : 104. 1874. Not B. robustus Fries, 1851. Bolitus eximius Peck, Jour, Myc. 3 : 54. 1887.
Pileus thick, compact, globose when young, becoming convex at maturity, 8-20 cm. broad; surface dry, smooth, subglabrous, slightly viscid when wet, purplish -brown, smokyred or chocolate-brown, at times lilac-tinted, darker when bruised; margin entire, concolorous : context firm, gray or slightly reddish, sometimes nearly pure-white, changing to pale flesh-colored, taste mild; tubes adnate, at length depressed, nearly plane, colored nearly like the pileus, becoming deep chocolate-brown with age, mouths minute, subcircular, stuffed when young: spores oblong, smooth, brownish-ferruginous, ll--15X4-6/^: stipe cylindric, subequal, solid, minutely squamulose or coarsely granular, slightly paler than the pileus, greenish-purple within, 5-14 cm. long, 1-3 cm. thick.
Type locality : Erattleboro, Vermont.
Habitat : Thin woods, especially on roadside banks.
Distribution : Nova Scotia to North Carolina and west to Kentucky.