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a whitish pellicle, hollow, often eccentric. Flesh like that of the cap, 

 turning deep orange salmon near surface when cut. 



Spores (of No. 1845) cream color, subspherical to elliptic, dis- 

 tinctly tuberculate, a large oil drop, 6-G.5 x 7.5-8.7/^. 



This striking species grows on the ground in pine woods in the fall. 

 It is probably nearest L. chelidonium Pk., from which it differs in the 

 dry, white, zoneless cap and orange-salmon color of milk and flesh. 

 It differs from L. salmoneus Pk. in the deep orange-salmon gills 

 (salmon-orange to orange-cream of Ridgway), very short stem, ab- 

 sence of tomentum on cap, and entirely different habitat. This adds 

 one more to the very small number of species in which the milk is 

 bright colored from the first. 



In looking over the copy, at the I^ew York Botanical Garden, of 

 Berkeley's manuscript notes on North American Fungi (mostly tran- 

 scribed from notes accompanying the collection of Curtis and of 

 Ravenel) I have recently discovered that this species was collected 

 by Dr. M. A. Curtis (for whom I have named it) in South Carolina 

 in the same kind of habitat. For some reason the species was never 

 published, but Curtis' notes leave no doubt that he had our plant. 

 These notes are as follows : 



"1364. (Lactarius near to 1293.) Cap clay-white, 1-1 1/^ in. 

 broad, smooth, fleshy (flesh thick, salmon-colored), margin invo- 

 lute when young, becoming depressed in center. Lam. unequal, 

 attached, bright salmon-color, rather thick, straight, narrow, not 

 crowded, occasionally forked, and in the older ones venosely 

 connected. Sporidia white (?), stipe white or pale salmon col- 

 ored, short (1^ in.), 4 lines thick, hollow at the top, often excen- 

 tric. Among grass in rather damp pine sandy woods. Sept." 



We also find the following note in the same manuscript : 



"2883. (Lactarius deliciosus, var. ut videtur vel nova sp.) 

 Cap 1/^ in. broad, subviscid, with a thin white cuticle, not zoned, 

 plano-convex, and umbilicate. Substance salmon colored, some- 

 what pungent. Lam. rich salmon colored, subdistant, not lac- 

 tescent. Stipe 1 in. long, l^ in. thick, solid, whitish, fragile. 

 Spores white! — Aug. Earth in pine woods." 



1437. In grass among scattered pines in hollow exactly east of Piney Pros- 

 pect, near Raleigh road, October 28, 1914. Photo. Spores 5.1-6.5 x 

 65.-9^. 



