86 BuRLINGHAM: LACTARII FROM VERMONT 
but the young trees grow rapidly where given an opportunity. 
Forests of balsam fir, spruce, and hemlock are numerous. The 
deciduous woods are made up principally of maples, beeches, 
yellow and paper birch, and aspens. Along small streams, alders 
abound. The soil is a loam or a sandy loam, with a topsoil of 
vegetable mold in the less steep and rocky woods. : 
From the middle of July to the middle of September the 
weather was unusually dry. Consequently there was a scarcity 
of the Lactarii except in naturally moist woods, and in wooded 
ravines. The swamps were not asarule good collecting grounds, 
owing to the fact that they were so often supplied by cold springs. 
Nevertheless the region, with its varying elevations, diverse forest 
conditions, and shaded ravines, proved a most fruitful collecting field. 
During July and August, after a light rain or even a heavy dew, 
Boleti and Russulae were very abundant in the more open places 
in the woods; by the middle of August the Cortinari began to 
be plentiful ; and from first to last many other genera were repre- 
sented by a lesser number of. species. But in the present paper I 
shall attempt to cover merely the summer’s work upon the genus 
Lactarius. 
The absence of Lactarius piperatus was notable, but the related 
form, Lactarius deceptivus Peck, was very common throughout 
the region. Two species were found which have not been re- 
ported before in the United States; namely, Lactarius resimus 
Fr.,* and Lactarius circellatus (Batt.) Fr. Lactarius rimosellus 
also should be mentioned as a species recently described by Dr. 
Peck (Rep. State Bot. N. Y. 1905: 37. 1906). Lactarius oculatus, 
which was described by Peck as a variety of Lactarius subdulcis, is 
here separated as a distinct species, since the Vermont specimens 
were so plainly viscid when moist. 
Many thanks are due Dr. Charles H. Peck for the privilege of 
examining the type specimens in the herbarium of the New York 
* In the Rep. State Bot. N. Y. for 1872, Peck describes Lactarius regalis, which, 
in the Rep. State Bot. N. Y. for 1884 and 1885, he refers to Lactarius resimus as @ 
variety. The type specimens show the plant in various stages including forms young 
enough to have tomentum on the margin. From the absence of this tomentum in the 
five type specimens, it would seem that they belong to a distinct species as first 
described ; but further collections of this form must be made before its position can be 
positively determined. 
