14 Rhodora [JANUARY 
Few localities in New England, for instance, or even in the United 
States, have been studied long enough and carefully enough to make 
the knowledge of their fleshy fungi anything like complete. The ex- 
perience of the Boston Mycological Club may be cited to show how 
much may still be done, even in the neighborhood of a botanical 
centre. Since its organization, in 1895, its members have brought to 
the weekly exhibitions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society an 
astonishing number of species. This active collecting, stimulated, no 
doubt, by the curious eagerness, now becoming so general, to know 
whether this or that toadstool is good to eat, has demonstrated that the 
Boston region is rich in variety of species; that the range of most spe- 
cies can be easily extended ; that many of these species before recorded 
as rare can no longer be so regarded; and that here, as elsewhere, 
additions will easily be made to the list of fleshy fungi known to the 
country or to science. 
In furtherance of the intention of this journal to extend the knowl- 
edge of the flora of New England, a few notes, as a beginning, are 
presented here. It is hoped that they may prove of general as well as 
of more strictly botanical interest, and that they may bring forth similar 
notes from other collectors, to whom the pages of the journal will be 
open. 
A BosrON LACTARIUS. 
LACTARIUS LUTEOLUS Peck. (Bull. Torr. Bot. Cl, 23: 10: Oct., 
1896, p. 412). *'Pileus fleshy, rather thin, convex or nearly plane, 
commonly umbilicately depressed in the centre, and somewhat rugu- 
lose, pruinose or subglabrous, buff color ; flesh white ; taste mild ; milk 
copious, flowing easily, white or whitish ; lamellae close, nearly plane, 
adnate or slightly rounded behind, whitish, becoming brownish where 
wounded; stem short, equal, or tapering downward, solid, but some- 
what spongy within, colored like the pileus; spores globose .0003 in. 
broad; pileus 2-3 in. broad ; stem 1-1.5 in. long, 3-5 lines thick. Dry 
Woods, East Milton, Mass., August. H. Webster.” 
Since this species was thus described, it has been found in abundance, 
and further information concerning it can now be furnished. Speci- 
mens are at hand, collected between August roth and 26th, 1898. 
Those of the earlier date are already near maturity, so that the species 
may be looked for in late July, for, like many Zactarii, it is of slow 
growth ; those of the later date are already beginning to show signs of 
age. The plant grows usually in dry situations, though sometimes in 
moist, well-drained spots, in woods or thickets, under deciduous trees. 
