Timothy J. Baroni is a Professor of Biology at State University of New York - College at Cortland. His interest in the fleshy pored boletes started when he was an undergraduate student at the Humboldt State University in northern California under the direction of Dr. David L. Largent with additional mentoring from Dr. Harry D. Thiers, then at San Francisco State University. Two papers were published in MYCOLOGIA from that research work in the late 1970's. Baroni's interest in this striking group of Basidiomycetes has continued over the years and because of a close working relationship with Ernst Both, Baroni has continued to study bolete systematics in addition to his other research interests in the Entolomataceae. Ernst and I hope that all who visit this WEB site will enjoy our offering on boletes from Central New York.