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latter genus to which I have referred it. Our New York species of Paxillus 
may be tabulated thus : 
Stem central : 
Pileus glabrous or only the margin tomentose.......... P. involutus Batsch. 
Pileus hairy, less than two inches broad........... .... P. strigosus Pk. 
Stem eccentric or lateral : 
Velvety-tomentose, hymenium lamellated.............. P. atrotomentosus Batsch. 
Glabrous, reticulated, hymenium porous. ......... .... P. porosus Berk. 
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Lactarius Inpieo Schw. 
This Lactarius appeared in considerable abundance in August, both in Sand- 
lake and in Gansevoort. The younger and fresh plants are generally highly 
colored and distinctly zonate, especially on the margin, but they fade with age, 
and generally lose their zonate character. The pileus when moist, is smooth, 
and subyiscid to the touch, the stem is hollow and often spotted, and the 
spores are yellowish. Wounded places become greenish. It belongs to the 
section Dapetes, so named doubtless because of the edible qualities of its 
species. The four New York species of this section are very similar in char- 
acter, and differ but little except in color and place of growth. They may 
be tabulated as follows : 
Lamelle when young blue, milk blue............. een Gow L. Indigo Schw. 
Lamelle when young orange, milk orange.......... sooncees U.1CElGIO SIS e/ ama 
Lamellz when young purplish-red, milk dark red.... ...... L. subpurpureus Pk. 
Lamellz when young grayish-yellow, milk pale saffron...... LL. Chelidonium Ph. 
The first and last species usually occur on drysoil under or near pine trees ; 
the second and third prefer damp soil in and about swamps and among mosses. 
Lactarius sorpipus PA. 
A notable variety occurs in Sandlake. It has a hairy pileus and a green- 
ish stem. ‘The hairs of the pileus are of a brownish-green color, and toward 
the margin they separate in tufts or squamules. The pileus, as well as the 
stem, is more highly colored than in the typical form. It may take the name 
var. hirsuius. 
Lacrarius aquirLtuus Pk. 
The agreeable aromatic odor, which is present both in the fresh and in the 
dried plant, is similar to that of L. glyciosmuis. 
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RussuLa rarens Pers. 
The odor of this plant as it occurs with us is not usually fetid or unpleasant. 
It resembles the odor of cherry bark and might aptly be termed amygdaline. 
The lamellw are rarely forked and frequently they are quite as equal as in 
species of the section Fragiles. In this respect it violates the characters of 
the section Heterophylla in which the species is placed. It is doubtless this 
form to which Dr. Curtis gave the name Russula amygdalina. But our 
plant is scarcely a distinct species, for it does occur with numerous short 
lamellae intermingled with the longer ones, and the same peculiar odor has 
been attributed by one writer at least to the Huropean R. fetens. 
Bo.etus sPECTABILIS Ph. 
This rare species occurs near Indian Lake in Hamilton County. It was 
discovered in North Elba in 1869, since which time I had not met with it. 
Iv constitutes with B. pictus and B. paluster a natural group of allied species. 
When young the tomentum in all of them covers the whole pileus. 
