58 Rhodora [Marcu 
to have pine needles or bits of leaves firmly fastened to it, suggests un- 
failingly the proper section, Zzmacina, and the sulphur yellow gills at 
once fix the species. As to minor details, although the standard de- 
scriptions are more or less at variance, confidence remains practically 
unshaken, perhaps because one finds this variance allowed for in 
Peck's notes on the species (vid. Rep. State Botanist of N. Y. for 1890, 
Pp. 40). 
Plants collected on October 27 were not viscid to the touch, in 
spite of a heavy rain the day before ; but the presence of bits of leaves 
and needles firmly adhering to the caps left no room for doubt. The 
scales that sometimes appear were hardly apparent. In color the 
pileus was reddish brown at the disk, passing into pale yellow at the 
margin. An occasional green tint to the yellow, absent, according to 
Peck, from specimens seen by him, recalled Fries's remark ( Epicrisis, 
p. 20), that this species and others are often greenish in late autumn. 
In connection with this point it is worth noting that Fries makes 
Agaricus flavovirens Pers. a synonym. The stem was generally white, 
as described by Peck, not sulphur yellow as called for by the diag- 
nosis in Fries, though Fries notes the occurrence at Upsala of a white- 
stemmed form. Short-stemmed specimens, however, showed a yellow 
tint so pale as to seem like a reflection from the gills. The lamella 
were rounded or emarginate, and nearly free, and appear quite free in 
a few specimens since drying. 
The dimensions given by Peck (pileus 3 to 5 in. broad, stem r to 2 in. 
long) applied well to plants that grew on pine needles, but not to those 
among loose leaves; in these the stem was much longer, equalling or 
surpassing the width of the cap. A similar difference in habit is often 
noticeable in agarics, but was so marked in this case as to cause com- 
ment. The longer stems were in some cases flexuous and slightly 
bulbous. The plants were in groups, but distinct. 
Though this species is not recorded as edible by Fries, by Cooke, 
or by Peck, it may be safely added to the edible list, for it has been 
tested repeatedly by people known to the writer. 
LACTARIUS LUTEOLUS Peck, recorded in RHODORA for January from 
several stations near Boston, has been found in abundance in chestnut 
woods in Pomíret, Conn., by Miss S. B. Fay. 
Vol. 1, No. 2, including pages 2r to 40, was issued February 1, 1899. 
