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Stem usually short and tapering downward, about 3 cm. or some- 

 times up to 5 cm. long, varying mucli in thickness, 1.3-2.5 cm. in 

 diameter, quite smooth or slightly pruinose, white, or with buff shades 

 and stains, solid, but with soft j&esh like the cap. 



Spores (of 'No. 585) varying greatly in size in the same spore-print, 

 pure white, short-elliptic, very minutely warted to almost smooth, 

 6.7-7.5 X 8-13, averaging about 7.4 x ll/>i. 



A large white species that is common in dry woods in fall and 

 not rare in summer. It is distinguished from L. deceptivus by smooth 

 stem and more crowded and narrower gills ; and from L. glaucescens 

 by the much less close and somewhat deeper gills, the milk not turning 

 greenish and cap more shining. The plants also run considerably 

 larger than L. glaucescens, and the flesh is somewhat firmer, and the 

 milk more peppery than in that species. Distinguished from L. vel- 

 lereus by smooth cap and stem and closer gills. 



In the mountains of this State (Pisgah Forest) Miss Burlingham 

 found a fragrant form of this species of which she writes as follows : 



"In North Carolina I found plants agreeing in all other essentials 

 with Lactaria piperata except that the latex dried a pale yellowish, 

 and the fresh plant when wet or when rubbed had the odor of crushed 

 blackberries, and the gills were slightly less crowded. This can 

 scarcely represent more than a form of the species, and on account of 

 the odor, which is the distinguishing characteristic, I will refer to it 

 as form fragrans. It is No. 79, 1907, of my North Carolina plants. 

 Gillet recognizes a form amara, in which the milk becomes yellowish 

 in drying, but the plant is odorless." 



586. Low place below branch below Howell's spring. October 17, 1912. 

 906. Woods near cemetery, October 10, 1913. Spores 6.3-7.5 x7-8.5^, very 

 minutely warted. 

 1052. Woods south of South Building, September 16, 1910. 

 1211. On side of well shaded hill near path along right-hand side of Bowlin's 

 Creek, a short distance below Fern Banks, July 25, 1914. Photo. 



Common, in dry woods. Curtis. 

 Blowing Rock. Atkinson. 

 North Carolina (mountains). Burlingham. 

 Asheville. Beardslee. 



