Tylopilus eximius (Pk.) Singer syn. Leccinum eximium (Pk.) Pomerleau. Lilac-brown Bolete. Cap 5-20cm across, convex for a long time before expanding; pale dark chocolate brown with lilac or purplish overtones, with whitish bloom when young; viscid in wet weather, surface often slightly pitted. Tubes sunken around the stem or free; brownish purple. Pores very small; chocolate brown or purplish, paler with age, not changing or bruising. Stem 50-110 x 10-30mm, clavate or cylindrical; colored as cap but densely, minutely punctate with darker, purple-brown dots. Flesh thick; pale purple-brown, especially in stem apex, cream or yellowish in stem base, unchanging when cut. Spores ellipsoid, subfusiform, (11)11.5-15(17) x 3.5-4(6)µ. Deposit vinaceous brown. Habitat under mixed conifers. Common. Found in eastern North America from Georgia to Maine and west to Michigan. Season July-September. Edible with caution; a case of poisoning has been reported. Comment The spores of this collection were slightly narrower and the cap colors rather paler than usually reported, but it otherwise agrees with the original description.