52 Journal op the Mitchell Society ^June 



Gills distant, irregular, many short, some anastomosing near the 

 margin and a few forked, about 3-4 mm. wide, slightly decurrent, 

 pale creamy white, turning sordid ochraceous when wounded, and 

 discolored in age. 



Stem eccentric, 2.5-3 cm, long, 0.8-1.2 cm. thick, nearly equal, firm, 

 stuffed, or cavernously hollow, surface even, pulverulent above, vel- 

 vety below, colored like the cap but darker. 



Spores yellowish, subspherical to elliptic, with a long mucro, very 

 minutely papillate or papillate warted, 5.5-7.4x7.4-11/^. 



A rare plant in Chapel Hill and represented so far by a single col- 

 lection, which is of a short-stemmed form. The stem is said to reach 

 a lengih of 8 cm. 



2181. Damp soil by branch west of Meeting of the "Waters, June 20, 1916. 

 Photo. 



. Pisgah Forest. Burlingham. 

 Blowing Rock. Atkinson. 



42. Lactarius Gerardii Peck. 



The following is from Miss Burlingham (Mem. Torr. B. C, 14: 

 87, 1908) : 



"Pileus fleshy, firm, convex at first, often with a small umbo, then 

 plane or depressed, dark seal-brown, becoming golden-brown or umber, 

 or sometimes paler, azonate, dry, surface velvety rugose radiately 

 from the center, sometimes becoming cracked near the margin, margin 

 even or wavy and irregular, often paler in color, thin, becoming ex- 

 tended ; gills white then cream-colored, more or less interveined, dis- 

 tant, appearing more so in older specimens with somewhat irregular 

 spaces, decurrent, not very thin, broad; stem the same color as the 

 pileus, velvety to the touch, equal or ventricose, stuffed, then hollow, 

 2.5-5 cm. long, 4-20 mm. thick; flesh white, unchanging; spores 

 white, globular, echinulate, 6.5-9;".; latex white, unchanging, mild, 

 then slightly acrid. Edible. 



"Hab. : On the ground in woods or in open groves. July to 

 September. 



