346 Peck: New SPECIES OF FUNGI 
rent, white or whitish; stem short, curved, stuffed or hollow, 
white or whitish, slightly thickened and distinctly whitish villose 
at the base; spores minute, 4 long, 2 4 broad. 
Pileus 4-10 mm. broad; stem I.5-2.5 cm. long, 1-2 mm. 
thick. 
Decaying wood. Ontario, Canada. August. C. Guillet. 
The species belongs to the section Pyxidatae. The curving of 
the stem is due to the place of growth, which is on the sides of. 
prostrate trunks of trees. The villosity at the base of the stem is 
a conspicuous feature of the species. 
Lactarius rufulus 
Pileus fleshy, firm, broadly convex becoming subinfundibuli- 
form, brownish-red, flesh white, milk scanty, yellowish-white, taste 
acrid; lamellae close, adnate or slightly decurrent, pinkish-yellow 
becoming darker with age and pruinose; stem equal or slightly 
tapering upward, stuffed, often tufted and showing yellowish-brown 
strigose hairs at the base, sometimes radicating, colored like but 
_ paler than the pileus ; spores creamy-white, globose, verruculose, 
8-10 pz in diameter. 5 
Pileus 5-10 cm. broad; stem 4-8 cm. long, 5-6 mm. thick. 
Rich soil and leaf-mold under oak trees. Stanford University, 
California. March. Miss A. M. Patterson and S. Nohara. 
This species resembles Lactarius rufus (Scop.) Fr. in color, 
but differs from it in its stouter habit, cespitose mode of crowth, 
absence of an umbo, and yellowish-tinted spores. 
Lactarius xanthogalactus 
Pileus fleshy, convex or nearly plane becoming infundibuli- 
form with age, glabrous, zonate, pinkish-yellow becoming reddish- 
brown in drying, flesh yellowish, milk yellow, taste acrid ; lamellae 
close, adnate or decurrent, pinkish-yellow, pruinose when old and 
dry ; stem cylindric or sometimes compressed, stuffed or hollow, 
mealy-pruinose or subglandular, whitish or pallid ; spores globose, 
7—8 in diameter. 
Pileus 5-6 cm. broad; stem 5-6 cm. long, I-I.5 cm. thick. 
Under live-oak trees. Stanford University, California. Feb- 
ruary. Miss A. M. Patterson. 
The pinkish-yellow zonate pileus, yellow milk, and acrid of 
peppery taste are distinguishing characters of this species. 
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