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on the average twice as large as the type but corresponded with Dr. 
Peck’s description in all essential characteristics. 
Entoloma modestum Pk. was collected in its usual habitat in May 
and June and quite to my surprise, again on October 30. The autum- 
nal form is somewhat smaller but differs in no other respect from the 
type. 
During July and August I collected a small white Hygrophorus, 
and also a black one that was very variable in size and tint, both very 
viscid and strong smelling, the former slightly mephitic, the latter as 
soon as it begins to decay smelling of bad fish. 
There are those who would probably refer the black species to 
H. luridus B. & C.; but who knows what H. luridus really is? Not 
the writer. The white plant is wholly concolorous and possesses 
more than ordinary interest for all mycologists, because Dr. W. W. 
Ford of Johns Hopkins Medical School, Baltimore, has found it 
poisonous to rabbits and guinea pigs. These two species of Hygro- 
phorus were found growing with H. laetus (Pers.) Fr. The white 
plant upon drying loses all odor and becomes tawny; the black plant 
retains its color but loses its odor. H. laetus, as I find it, frequently 
has a mephitic odor. I think it quite probable that ultimately our 
black and our white plants will be declared to be only varietal forms 
of H. laetus. 
On August 3 I found in its usual situs, in a chestnut grove, Entoloma 
grande Pk., a rare plant according to Dr. Peck, as he informed me in 
September. The plants were of average size, a little lighter in color 
than usual and few in number. I cannot help remarking the strong 
resemblance superficially between this plant and E. sinuatum Fr.; 
both species grow in this same locality not over 75 feet from where 
E. clypeatum was found. Although Dr. Peck originally thought that 
E. grande might be poisonous, he now, having tried it, pronounces it 
edible. (See Bull. N. Y. Mus. 139, p. 39-40.) Rolland also in his 
“ Atlas des Champignons de France” p. 58, says that E. clypeatum 
“est comestible.” I have found E. grande in this locality for six 
consecutive seasons and have sent fresh and dried specimens to Dr. 
Peck who has never hesitated to pronounce them E. grande. It is a 
distinguished looking plant belonging to the section Genuina of 
Peck’s monograph of this genus. (See Bull. N. Y. Mus., 131, p. 48.) 
About this time I began to find Russula obscura Rom. and Russula 
palustris Pk., the latter under tamaracks and pines in a swamp, the 
