60 Rhodora [APRIL 
former on low land adjoining a swamp under pines and deciduous 
trees; both are red plants. The only way I have been able to do 
anything with red Russulae is to study one species at a time under all 
conditions of growth. Until this season I have passed them by 
but with the advent of Peck’s monograph and Dr. Kauffman's, I 
have plucked up sufficient courage to attack some of these species 
and I propose to continue the work. R. obscura is, generally speaking, 
larger than R. palustris, and the stem and flesh, especially the stem, 
become cinereous at maturity; the stem before maturity turns from 
white to cinereous if you handle it; handled roughly it becomes smoky 
brown, nearly black in some plants. R. palustris is slightly and 
tardily acrid to the taste, its pileus at maturity becomes broadly 
depressed, the depression shallow and saucer-like, and the color of the 
center is a dark blood red. "The stem is white, delicately tinged with 
pink. Both species are usually infested with larvae. R. obscura, 
once known, is much more easily identified than R. palustris because 
of the changes in color of the flesh of pileus and stem. 
Gomphidius roseus Fr. was found twice under pines in a swamp 
during the last ten days of July. My plants resembled very closely 
Michael's illustration No. 47, Part two. 
Clavaria muscoides L. was found twice in August in a swamp under 
pines and deciduous trees in sphagnum. The species was identified 
by Dr. Peck. On this same trip I was very glad to find Collybia 
strictipes Pk.; it is well named because of its straight, tense appearance. 
The identification was by Dr. Peck. 
Between August 23 and September 10 I found in two swampy 
localities numerous plants of what proved to be Lepiota metulispora 
B. & Br. Most of the plants grew from the vegetable humus cover- 
ing the exposed and spreading roots of an enormous white oak. This 
fungus is remarkable for its peculiarly shaped spore which is described 
as nine-pin shaped, oblanceolate and obliquely clavate. The plant 
closely resembles L. clypeolaria Bull. in external character. Morgan 
says our American plant is considered a “form” of the Ceylon species. 
On August 25 I collected two exceedingly interesting plants in my 
favorite swamp, Amanita cariosa (Fr.) Gill. and Inocybe echinata 
Roth, the former growing at the base of a large maple, the latter in 
sphagnum under a tamarack. The Amanita has apparently escaped 
the eyes of American mycologists until the past season; for I am 
credibly informed that it has never before been reported from America. 
