1899] Webster,—Notes on Fleshy Fungi I5 
Specimens have also been gathered under pines, though not as yet in 
woods exclusively of pine. It chooses situations similar to those in 
which the related species Z. volemus Fr., L. corrugis Peck, and Z. Ay- 
grophoroides B. & C. are found, and is likely to be overlooked, or con- 
founded with dwarfed, pale forms of Z. volemus, which sometimes show 
scarcely a trace of their characteristic red brown. Its pruinose-pubes- 
cent surface and short stem, together with its smaller size, readily 
distinguish it. 
In the button, the margin of the pileus is inrolled. "The surface of 
the pileus at all stages, and of the stem, is covered with a conspicuous 
white bloom, which easily rubs off, disclosing the yellowish or cream- 
colored surface beneath. Handling spots the plant, particularly the 
stem, with dingy brown, The milky juice starts out in huge drops, 
especially from the lamellae, at the slightest jar. When it dries, it 
leaves dark brown spots. To gather and carry home specimens that 
keep the look of the fresh plant is thus a difficult matter. 
In age, the plants become dry and tough, with the margin irregu- 
larly wavy and turned up. "They do not readily decay, and seem to be 
rather free from attacks of insects. 
In the dried plant the yellowish color is most conspicuous in 
specimens of the earliest collection, in which the very edge of the 
expanded pileus is still inrolled. The surface of cap and stem is cov- 
ered (under a hand-lens) with dense, short pubescence. The hyme- 
nium is pallid, or, in the older plants, dark brown, and is whitish-pul- 
verulent, except in the interspaces between the gills, where it is as if 
varnished. 
'The white spores are globose, echinulate, and 8-815 p in diameter. 
Peck's measurement is smaller. 
This Lactarius was observed some years ago by Mr. Julius A. Palmer, 
who considered it an American form. Specimens sent to Professor 
Peck, in 1896, yielded the description and name cited at the head of 
these notes. The plant has been found in various places in Milton, 
Quincy, the Blue Hill Reservation, Melrose, Middlesex Fells and Lynn 
Woods, and is reported from other stations not far from Boston. 
Notes of its occurrence elsewhere would be of interest, for its range 
is probably greater than here indicated. Of its edible qualities nothing 
is known to the writer. 
