114 TWENTY-THIRD REPORT ON THE STATE CABINET. 
Height 1’—3’, breadth of pileus 8’-18”. 
Open woods. North Greenbush. October. 
5. HyGROPHORUS CONGELATUS 2. Sp. 
Pileus thin, convex, even, smooth or obscurely fibrillose, 
sordid red, sometimes tinged with yellow; lamelle few, dis- 
tant, broad, subemarginate, decurrent-toothed, bright red ; 
stipe equal, slender, smooth, solid, red, yellow within. 7 
Height 1’, breadth of pileus 4-6”, stipe about 1” thick. 
Banks by roadsides. North Elba. September. 
The specimens were collected in dry weather, but when 
moistened the pileus appears to be viscid. It has a peculiar, 
faded, dingy red appearance as if frost-bitten; whence the 
name. At first sight the plant might be taken for small Hy- 
grophorus miniatus, from which it is clearly distinct by the 
smooth pileus and the color and character of the lamelle. 
6. HyGRopHORUS CANTHARELLUS Schw. 
Pileus thin, convex, at length umbilicate or centrally de- 
pressed, minutely squamulose, moist, bright red, becom..g 
orange or yellow; lamelle distant, subarcuate, decurrent, 
yellow, sometimes tinged with vermilion; stipe smooth, equal, 
subsolid, sometimes becoming hollow, concolorous, whitish 
within. 
Height 2’ 4’, breadth of pileus 6-12”, stipe 1-2” thick. 
Swamps and damp shaded places in fields or woods. July- 
September. Common. 
ar. 7osea has the pileus expanded and the margin wavy 
scoloped. Swamps. Sandlake. 
7. HyGRoPHORUS NiITIDUS B. & R. 
Pileus thin, fleshy, convex, broadly umbilicate, smooth, 
shining, viscid, pale yellow with the margin striatulate when 
moist, nearly white when dry; lamelle arcuate, decurrent, 
yellow ; stipe slender, brittle, smooth, viscid, hollow, yellow ; 
flesh yellow. 
Height 2’-4’, breadth of pileus 8”—12”, stipe 1’—2” thick. 
Swamps. Sandlake. August. 
The cavity of the stem is very small. (Plate 1, figs. 2-6.) 
Genus— LACTARIUS #7. 
Hymenophorum confluent with the stem and vesiculose trama. 
Gills milky, edge acute.— Berk. Oudtl. ; 
