1018'] The Lactakias of J^^okth Carolina 23 



1841. In woods east of cemetery, Rocky Ridge Farm, September 20, 1915. 



Milk white, unchanging, peppery, surface slightly viscid, smooth, 



orange-yellow, rather faintly zonate, odor faint. 

 1854. Deep woods near Battle's Branch, near Stroud's pasture, September 22, 



1915. Cap cinnamon buff with lighter zones, not very viscid, stem 



long, not spotted. Milk white, unchanging, peppery, one plant just 



like the others, otherwise had distant gills from 2-5 mm. apart except 



on the margin. 

 2369. Deep woods near Meeting of the Waters Branch, July 5, 1916. Spores 



elliptic, warted, 4.8-5.9x5.9-7.4^. 



Blowing Rock. Atkinson. 

 Asheville. Beardslee. 



15. Lactarius trivialis Fr. 



Plates 18 and 40. 



This is a very common, fairly large plant with cap up to 14 cni. 

 (often much smaller), strongly depressed in center, smooth, not 

 zoned, viscid, the margin strongly inturned until half grown ; color 

 grayish-lead suffused with liver color (fawn color of Ridgway), very 

 pale where covered with leaves, in old age becoming sordid earth 

 color. 



Gills narrow, only 5 mm. deep, even in large plants, crowded, many 

 short ones but none forked, color light creamy flesh, becoming yellow- 

 ish-brown, turning smoky brown when bruised, and quite dark brown 

 when old. Milk light creamy white, not changing, quite acrid or only 

 moderately so, and often becoming so only after a quarter or a half 

 minute, sparse or moderately plentiful, said to turn the gills glaucous 

 green, but this is scarcely noticeable in our plants. 



Stem solid, smooth, nearly white or lightly tinted like the cap or 

 gills, unpitted, in large plants up to 8 cm. long and 3.5 cm. thick. 



Spores (of No. 5GG) grayish bro\vu (dust color), distinctly warted 

 and ridged, short-elliptic, 7-8 x 8-10/i, not counting spines. 



Flesh white, tinted like cap near surface, not changing color when 

 cut. 



119. Battle's Park, behind Dr. Wheeler's, near branch. S^eptember 21. 1908. 



120. Woods south of Dr. Battle's yard. Battle's Park. September 18. 1908. 

 517. Woods near branch south of campus, October 7, 1912. 



