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Thin woods and moist places. West Albany and Karner. Septem- 
ber. 
A very variable species. The prevailing color of the pileus is gray or 
lead-gray, but it is often lilac-brown. Its surface has a moist and 
shining appearance, but it is sometimes seen under a lens to be rough- 
ened by minute pits or depressions, in which case it presents silvery or 
sparkling reflections as if micaceously atomate. It often grows with 
L. glyciosmus from which it is distinguished by its glabrous pileus and 
lack of odor. It also approaches L. plwmbeus, but differs from it in its 
smaller size, paler color, moist appearance and larger spores. Wounds 
-of the lamellz assume a hue similar to that seen under similar cir- 
cumstances in LZ. trivialis. 
Lactarius parvus, Peck. 
Small Lactarius. 
Pileus nearly plane or depressed, even, glabrous, zoneless, reddish- 
brown or lilac-brown, becoming paler with age, larfelle narrow, ‘crowded, 
white or yellowish, becoming dingy-greenish where wounded ; stem 
equal or slightly tapering upward, often curved, stuffed, whitish ; spores 
globose, white, .0003 to .ooo4 in.; milk white, taste acrid. 
Pileus 6 to 12 lines broad, stem 6 to 12 lines long, 1 to 2 thick. 
Old stumps and prostrate trunks in woods. Sandlake, Osceola and 
Greig. August and September. 
This small species is closely allied to L. varius, of which it might be 
considered a mere variety. It differs in being ‘smaller, in having the 
pileus constantly even, zoneless, destitute of an umbo or central pa- 
pilla and in growing paler with age. I have only found it growing on 
decaying wood. When growing on the sides of stumps and prostrate 
trunks, the stem is often curved and sometimes eccentric, 
Lactarius plumbeus, /’7. 
Lead-colored Lactarius. 
Agaricus plumbeus, Bull. 
“ Pileus compact, convex, then infundibuliform, dry, unpolished fw- 
liginous or brownish-black ; lamelle crowded, white or yellowish; stem 
solid, equal, thick ; milk white, acrid, unchangeable,” spores .00025 to 
.0003 in. 
Pileus 2 to 5 in. broad, stem 1.5 to 3 in. long, 3 to 6 lines thick. 
The specimens which I have referred to this species were found in the 
Catskill mountains several years ago, growing in hemlock woods, under 
spruce and balsam trees. I have not met with the species since. The 
pileus in the larger specimens had a minutely tomentose appearance, 
but in the dried specimens this has disappeared. They also varied in 
color from blackish-brown to pinkish-brown and grayish-brown, but 
they can scarcely be more than a mere form or variety of the species 
the description of which, as given by Fries, 1 have quoted. In the 
Handbook the pileus 1s described as dark fuliginous gray or brown, and 
Gillet describes it as black-brown, dark fuliginous or lead-color, and adds 
that the plant is poisonous and the milk very acrid and burning. Cor- 
dier says that the flesh is white and the taste bitter and disagreeable. 
