1918'] The Lactarias of IsTorth Carolina 41 



white or tinted with the color of the surface ; spores white, subglobose, 

 echiuulate, 6. 5-8. 5m; latex white, unchanging, mild. 



"Hab. : In marshv places in woods, in Sphagnum, or in decaying 

 leaves. 



"DiSTi^^GUismxG Field-Marks: The sordid-brown color or the 

 mixture of brownish-drab and yellow-brown, which gives the moist 

 pileus a mottled, streaked, and subzonato appearance, and the striatu- 

 late margin. The species is small and is rendered inconspicuous by 

 its dusky coloring. It occurs only in densely shaded places." 



Professor Beardsloe has collected L. cyathula Fr. in Sweden, and 

 writes me that he has no doubt that Peck's L. paludinellus is the same. 



North Carolina (Pisgah Forest?). Burlinghain. 

 Asheville, common. Beardslee. 



33. Lactarius Curtisii n. sp. 



Plates 26 and 40. 



Cap 1.5-G cm., usually about 3.5-5 cm. wide, deeply depressed 

 (umbilicate) in center, the margin inrolled until maturity or after, 

 sometimes expanded in age, rounded or nearly plane, often irregular 

 and with a deep sinus on one side; surface quite smooth, dry, and 

 chalky looking, azonate, chalk-white except for the brownish-yellow 

 stains, turning light or orange salmon when bruised. Flesh quite 

 firm and solid, about 8 mm. thick near stem in largo plants, turning 

 a deep orange salmon near the gills when cut, light orange salmon 

 elsewhere, in age not turning salmon; mildly peppery when young, 

 hardly so when old. ]\Iilk scant, a beautiful deep orange salmon, 

 iiiildly peppery, disappearing in age. 



Gills moderately close to somewhat distant, not forked, slightly de- 

 current, only about 3 mm. deep in large plants ; color when young a 

 fine orange salmon, after some time turning a smoky olive when 

 bruised, fading to \)i\]\\d ocliraceous-bulf witli a tint of orgaiigo in age, 

 smoky-olive in drying. 



Stem very short, only O.G-1.5 cm. long, and 7-10 nun. thick at cap. 

 tii])oriiig downward, quite smooth and even, liglit orange salmon with 



