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white tomentose at very base (most noticeable on part under the 

 ground). Flesh like that of cap. 



Spores white, spherical, tuberculate, a large oil drop, 5-6/*. See 

 drawing. 



Gregarious and often cespitose in low, mossy woods ; not common. 



113. By sphagnum moss bed west of athletic field, September 25, 1908. 

 1165. Just below sphagnum moss bed, east of athletic field, July 20, 1914. 



Photo. 

 2347. Damp woods by Meeting of the Waters Branch, near Scott's Hole, July 



3, 1916. Photo. 



Blowing Rock (as L. rufescens Morgan). Atkinson. (Morgan does 



not seem to have ever published his L. rufescens.) 

 Pisgah Forest. Burlingham. 



38. Lactarius griseus Pk. 



Both Atkinson and Miss Burlingham have found this in the N^orth 

 Carolina mountains, but we have not met with the typical form in 

 Chapel Hill. Miss Burlingham's description follows (Mem. Torr. 

 B. C. 14 :80, fig. 14. 1008) : 



"Pileus fleshy, rather thin, firm at first, then lax, broadly convex, 

 papillate, then depressed in the center, or at length infundibuliform, 

 with or without papilla, varying from slate-gray (362) to smoke-gray 

 (363), becoming yellowish with age (putty-colored, 311), azonate, 

 dry, minutely tomentose, becoming floccose-tomentose, sometimes ap- 

 pearing squamulose to the naked eye, 1-5 cm. broad, margin involute, 

 then spreading, entire ; gills white, becoming cream-colored to honey- 

 yellow, and pruinose, seldom forking, close, adnate to slightly decur- 

 rent, broader than the thickness of the pileus ; stem of the same color 

 as the pileus or paler, nearly equal, dry, glabrous except at the base, 

 which is sometimes pubescent, stuffed, then hollow, 1.5-6 cm. long, 

 3-6 mm. thick ; flesh white, unchanging, not aromatic ; spores white, 

 broadly elliptical, echinulate, 6-7 x 8-9.5/* • latex white, unchanging, 

 slowly acrid. 



"Hab. : In moist, mossy places in either coniferous or deciduous 

 woods, on the ground or on decaying logs. July, August, and Sep- 

 tember. 



