54 Journal of the Mitchell Society [June 



104. Battle's Park, September 14, 16, and 23. 1910. 



327. Battle's Park, September 26, 1911. 



802. Dr. Pratt's lawn, south side, September 21, 1913. Photo. Spores 7.4-11^. 

 1007. Low woods west of athletic field, September 26, 1911. 

 1148. In sphagnum moss bed east of athletic field, July 10, 1914. 

 1192. Damp woods south of cemetery, July 22, 1914. A very light, pale-cream 



form. Spores 8.5-10.2^. 

 1201. Hollow in woods south of the athletic field, July 23, 1914. Photo. 

 2205. Woods, Chapel Hill, June 23, 1916. Gills much more distant in one 

 than in others. 



Blowing Rock. Atkinson. 

 Common in woods. Curtis. 

 Mount Pisgah. Burlingham. 

 Asheville. Beardslee. 



44. Lactarius hygrophoroides B. & C. 



Plate 34. 



Cap about 5.5-8 cm. broad, deeply depressed in center, the margin 

 arched and irregular, and sometimes prettily crenated ; surface smooth 

 or decidedly rugose, dull and distinctly pruinose, not viscid, about 

 pinkish cinnamon to cinnamon (Ridgway). Flesh white, elastic, 

 about 3 mm. thick near the stem, mild and odorless. Milk white, 

 mild, not abundant. 



Gills distant, 6-7 mm. wide beyond the middle, pointed and decur- 

 rent at the stem, light yellowish-cream, thick and irregular, short ones 

 near the margin, not changing when wounded. 



Stem about 2.5-4 cm. long, 11-14 mm. thick at top, tapering down- 

 ward, smooth, about color of cap, solid. 



Spores distinctly roughened with low warts, elliptic, 5.5-7.4x7.4- 

 ll/i. They are exactly like the spores of the plant of this species in 

 Miss Burlingham's exsiccati. 



In drying the plant, especially the gills, has a strong tendency to 

 liecome watery and moldy, contrasting in this way will the related 

 L. volemus and L. corrugis, which dry readily. For an illustration 

 in color see Mycologia 8: PL 187. 1916; also, K Y. St. Mu. Mem. 

 3: PL 53. 1900 (as L. distans). 



2344. Battle's Park, near branch, July 3, 1916. Photo. 



2365. Damp soil along Meeting of the Waters Branch, July 5, 1916. Photo. 



