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The first and second varieties have occurred within our limits. The 
first also has the-stem elastic and furnished with a whitish or grayish to- 
mentum or strigose villosity at the base, when growing among moss in 
swamps. A form occurred in Sandlake, in which some of the speci- 
mens were proliferous. The umbo had developed into a minute pileus. 
With us the prevailing color of the pileus is yellowish-red or cinnamon- 
red. Sometimes the color is almost the same as that of L. volemus and 
L. hygrophoroides, and again it is a tan color or a bay-red, asin L. 
camphoratus, from which such specimens are scarcely separable, except 
by their lack of odor. In young plants the pileus usually has a moist 
appearance, which is sometimes retained in maturity. Cordier pronoun- 
ces the species edible, and says that he has tested it several times with- 
out inconvenience. 
Lactarius paludinellus, x. sp 
Little marsh Lactarius. 
Pileus thin, plane or slightly depressed, striatulate on the margin, 
glabrous, generally with a small blackish umbo or papilla, at first dingy 
brown, becoming paler with age ; \amelle moderately close, adnate or 
slightly decurrent, cream colored ; stem nearly equal, stuffed or hollow, 
glabrous, with a white strigose-villosity at the base, paler than or colored 
like the pileus ; spores .0003 to .00035 in.; milk white, taste mild. 
Pileus 6 to r2 lines broad, stem 10 to 18 lines long, 1.5 to 2 thick. 
Among sphagnum, in shaded marshes. Sandlake. August. 
A small and rare species, related to but distinct from L. swblucis by 
its brownish expellent pileus and striatulate margin. 
NEW YORK SPECIES OF PLUTEUS. 
PLUTEUS, J’. 
Hymenophorum distinct from the fleshy or fleshy-fibrous stem , lam- 
ella rounded behind, free, at first crowded, white or yellowish, then 
flesh-colored ; annulus and volva none. 
The Plutei, in the pink-spored series of Agarics, correspond very 
nearly in structure to the Lepiote in the white-spored series. They 
differ from the Lepiote in having no annulus ; and by its absence they 
are distinguished from the Annulariz of their own series, and by the 
absence of a volva, from the Volvariz. By their free lamellze they are 
readily separated from all other pink-spored Agarics. The species are 
generally of medium or moderately small size. Nearly all inhabit decay- . 
ing wood in groves or in the shades of forests, but the common Fawn 
Agaric, P. cervinus, is often found on old stumps in open situations 
where it is exposed to the full light of the sun. The pileus may be 
floccose-fibrillose, pruinose-pulverulent or glabrous, and by these char- 
acters Fries has separated the species into three groups. In some 
species the central part of the pileus is more or less rugose-wrinkled or 
uneven. The lamellz are at first compactly crowded (coherent) very 
