14 BULLETIN N. Y. STATE MUSEUM. 
Myxacium amarum. 
Pileus thin, convex or nearly plane, often irregular, smooth, glu- 
tinous, yellow, the disk often tinged with red, the margin whitish, 
flesh white, taste very bitter ; lamellz close, rounded behind, whitish, 
becoming ochraceous-cinnamon ; stem soft, viscid in wet weather, 
solid, tapering upward, whitish, clothed with silky white fibrils ; 
spores elliptical, .0003 to .0004 in. long, .0002 to .00025 broad. 
Plant gregarious or subcespitose, 1 to 2 in. high, pileus about 1 
in. broad, stem 2 to 4 lines thick. 
Under spruce and balsam trees. Adirondack mountains. August. 
The very bitter taste is suggestive of the specific name. The stem 
is scarcely viscid except in wet weather. 
Russula compacta Frost MS. 
‘‘Pileus white, firm. solid, cracked in age, sometimes tinged with 
red or yellow or both in spots, turning up in age, seldom depressed ; 
lamellae very white, almost free, not forked or dimidiate, becoming 
brown when bruised or dry ; stem solid, white, even, smooth ; flesh 
at first white, then brownish.” 
Pileus fleshy, compact, convex or centrally depressed, whitish, 
sometimes tinged with red or yellow, becoming reddish-alutaceous or 
dingy-ochraceous with age, the margin thin, even, incurved when 
young ; lamelle rather broad, subdistant, nearly free, some of them 
forked, a few dimidiate, white, becoming brown with age or where 
bruised ; stem short, equal, firm, solid, white, changing color like the 
pileus ; spores subglobose, nearly even, .00035 in. in diameter. 
Plant 2 to 4 in. high, pileus 3 to 5 in. broad, stem 8 to 12 lines 
thick. 
Open woods. Sandlake and Brewerton. August and September. 
The late Mr. C. C. Frost sent me specimens and manuscript descrip- 
tions of a few species of fungi collected by him in Vermont. He gave 
names to those which he considered new species, and it gives me 
pleasure to adopt his names whenever it is rendered possible by the 
discovery of the species within our limits. The plant here described 
does not fully agree with his manuscript description, which I have 
quoted, but it approaches so near an agreement that there cannot be 
much doubt of the specific identity of the two plants. In our plant 
the pileus is sometimes split on the margin. The change in the color 
of the pileus and stem is nearly the same, but the lamelle sometimes 
become darker than either. When drying, the specimens emit 
