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therefore, to treat them as distinct. On writing Mr. Beardslee in 

 regard to this plant, he replied: "I have this the same exactly as 

 you find it. I have noted the form you have as very different from 

 the type of the species. I find one form taller than this with their 

 crowded gills and your plant with the deep, distant gills, and I do not 

 find intermediates. I find, however, forms larger than those you send 

 with the same gills. I am inclined to think they should be separated. 

 I do not find spores as small as Miss Burlingham's lower limits for 

 them." 



78. Low place east of athletic field, September 16, 1910. 

 1162. Swamp of New Hope Creek below Durham bridge, July, 1914. Spores 



spherical with blunt papillae, average 11» in diameter, including 



spines. 

 1835. In deep woods, north side Rocky Ridge Farm, September 20, 1915. 



Photo. 

 1862. Battle's Park, near Strowd's pasture, September 21, 1915. 

 2349. By Meeting of the Waters Branch, near Scott's Hole, July 3, 1916. 



Photo. Type. 

 2394. Woods at top of Lone Pine Hill, July 18, 1916. Margin beautifully 



crenated. 

 2436. Clay soil, mixed woods. Battle's Park, July 24, 1916. Gills and flesh 



slowly turn dull deep red when wounded; taste acrid. 

 2666. Low damp woods by branch below Howell's Spring, July 14, 1917. 



Stem in this specimen quite lateral as in Pleurotus. 



Asheville. Beardslee. 



41. Lactarius ligniotus Fr. 



Plate 32. 



Cap 4.5-7 cm. broad, excentric and quite irregular, the margin 

 broadly drooping, depressed in center or scarcely so, surface rugose all 

 over, just as in L. riigosa, dresden brown all over, darkening to mum- 

 my brown in age, not zoned, dry, pulverulent with minute granules. 

 Flesh about 5-8 mm. thick in center, quickly thinning towards the 

 margin, rather spongy and clastic, pale cream-color, mild. !Milk 

 moderately plentiful, light pink or quite distinctly a clear pinJc 

 color and not changing for a long time, then becoming sordid ochrace- 

 ous like the wounded gills. 



