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Lachnocladium semivestitum B. & C. 



Low marshy places. Smithtown. August. G. F. Atkinson. 

 This fungus might easily be mistaken for a species of Clavaria, but 

 careful inspection shows that it is clothed toward the base by a 

 minute downy white tomentum. 



Lactarius brevis n. sp. 



PLATE Q, FIG. I-5 



Pileus thin, broadly convex, plane or slightly depressed in the 

 center, glabrous, azonate, whitish, sometimes with a slight aluta- 

 ceous tinge, flesh white, milk wdiitish, quickly changing to sulfur 

 yellow on exposure to the air, taste acrid; lamellae thin, narrow, 

 crowded, adnate, whitish or pallid; stem short, equal or slightly 

 tapering downward, solid or somewhat spongy within, glabrous, 

 white; spores subglobose, .0003 of an inch long, .00025-. 0003 

 broad. 



Pileus 1-2 inches broad; stem about i inch long, 2-4 lines thick. 

 This species is closely related to L. theiogalus from which 

 it may be separated by its white or whitish color, its smaller size, 

 solid or stuffed stem and the absence of tomentum from the base 

 of the stem. 



Lactarius colorascens n. sp. 



Pileus thin, nearly plane, becoming centrally depressed, moist, 

 glabrous, whitish or pallid when young, becoming brownish red 

 with age, milk white, changing to sulfur-yellow on exposure to the 

 air, taste bitter; lamellae thin, close, adnate or slightly decurrent> 

 whitish, becoming yellowish with age; stem equal, solid, even, 

 whitish, becoming brownish red with age; spores globose, rough, 

 .0003 of an inch in diameter. 



Pileus 1-2 inches broad; stem 1-1.5 inches long, 2-3 lines thick. 



Woods. Port Jefferson. August. G. F. Atkinson. In the 

 mature plant the color is similar to that ofL. camphoratus, 

 but the species is very distinct in the color of its milk and in its 

 bitter taste. 



Pholiota appendiculata n. sp. 



PLATE P, FIG. 8-17 



Pileus fleshy, firm, broadly convex or nearly plane, viscid when 

 moist, shining, squamose with appressed spotlike scales, appendi- 

 culate on the margin with fragments of the veil, dark red when 

 young, soon fading to pink and sometimes becoming yellowish 

 brown or grayish brown, flesh at first purplish red, specially in the 

 lower part, whitish or pale yellow when mature; lamellae thin, 



