Cpa Tati Sola Hts 
: fiw ak. mh x mH 
74 FORTY-FIRST ANNUAL REPORT ON THE 
Cortinarius rigidus, fr. 
Catskill mountains. September. 
Hygrophorus Laure, Morg. 
Woods. Catskill mountains. September. 
The squamules at the top of the stem are sometimes reddish. The 
disc is sometimes yellowish. 
Lactarius aspideus, f’. 
Borders of woods. Catskill mountains. September. 
A pretty but rare species, easily known by its pale yellow or straw 
color and the lilac hue assumed by wounds of the lamelle or flesh. 
In Systema Mycologicum the stem is described as hollow and spotted. 
In our specimens the stem is hollow but not spotted. It is colored 
like the pileus and the spores are broadly elliptical or subglobose 
slightly rough, .0003 to .0004 in. long. 
Lactarius maculatus, n. sp. 
Pileus fleshy, firm, at first convex and umbilicate or centrally 
depressed, then subinfundibuliform, glabrous, viscid when moist, 
concentrically spotted, especially toward the margin, varying in color 
from grayish-buff to grayish-lilac, flesh subconcolorous, taste acrid | 
and unpleasant; lamelle close, thin, sometimes forked, adnate to 
decurrent, pallid or cream color; stem short, equal or tapering toward 
the base, hollow, spotted, colored like, or a little paler than, the pileus; 
milk at first whitish with a cream-colored tint, wounds of the fleshand _ 
lamelle changing to lilac; spores subglobose, echinulate, .0004 to .0005 
in. long. : 
Pileus 3 to 5 in. broad; stem 1 to 2 in. long, 5 to 8 lines thick. 
Thin woods and pastures. Catskill mountains and Menands. 
August and September. 
This species is allied to L. wvidus, with which it was united in the 
Thirty-eighth Report as variety magnus. Having had the opportunity 
of investigating it in the fresh state, it seems to me to be a distinct 
species, readily recognized by its larger size and its firmer, spotted 
pileus which is centrally depressed or infundibuliform. I have not 
seen it at all umbonate. The spots of the pileus are arranged in con- 
centric circles and by their confluence the pileus often appears to be 
zonate. The change of color assumed by wounds is similar to that 
which takes place in L. uvidus. 
