62 Rhodora [APRIL 
Spores white, 6 X 9 u, borne on basidia having but two sterigmata 
each.” 
Lepiota haematosperma Bull. (Inocybe echinata Roth.) has had a 
varied history in systematic Mycology. It has been placed in Psalliota 
on account of the color of the spores when fresh. Massee places it in 
Inocybe. But it is more satisfactory to have it placed in Lepiota on 
account of its almost or quite free gills and the pale yellow spores. 
See Quélet-Bataille Flore Monographique des Amanites et des Lé- 
piotes, 1902, p. 73. 
From the fresh plants I failed to get a spore print, but a micro- 
scopic examination of the spores of the dried plant showed them a 
pale yellow. My plants were small and very noticeable when first 
seen for the fringe-like appendiculate margin of the pileus, a character 
that disappeared before my return to the city. The plants, upon 
drying, have become jet black, as mentioned by Smith in the above 
named work. On this particular trip I was accompanied by Dr. 
W. W. Ford who was desirous of collecting all the poisonous species 
of Amanita we could find. There was a deer in the woods bent upon 
the same errand, and in football parlance it was first down for the deer, 
for the doctor having left his bag upon the ground and open, returned 
later only to find that its contents had been eaten, with what inju- 
rious effects, if any, we know not, though the doctor offered a substan- 
tial reward for the return of the deer, dead or alive, within 48 hours. 
Russula abietina Pk., was collected at intervals during July and 
August; I had little difficulty identifying the plant and my determi- 
nation was confirmed by Dr. Peck. My plants had an olive-green 
pileus with a brown or blackish center and were found in a swamp 
under pines and tamaracks and not under balsam fir as noted by Dr. 
Peck in his monograph upon the genus Russula. This is the second 
consecutive season I have collected this plant in this locality. It is 
an attractive plant but almost invariably riddled with larvae. 
Early in July I found three plants of an interesting Inocybe which 
Dr. Peck considered to be I. commixta Bres., or near that species; 
see Bresadola, t. LVIIT, f. 2. My plants were not so white as Bresa- 
dola’s, but they were remarkable for the white floccose veil which was 
very apparent upon two of them. Quélet and Bresadola seem to 
think it a close relative of 7. geophylla (Sow.) Fr. I hope to meet with 
this plant in the year to come in sufficient numbers to solve doubts 
about its identity. Inocybe intricata Pk. was scarce. In all I col- 
