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Russula lepida, Fr. 
Woods. Menands. August. 
Generally with the pileus red, but quite variable in this respect. 
Russula adulterina, fF’. 
Low swampy ground. Karner. June. 
This is placed by Fries as a variety of R. integra. 
Russula atropurpurea, n. sp. 
Pileus at first convex, then centrally depressed, glabrous, dark 
purple, blackish in the center, the margin even or slightly striate, 
flesh white, grayish or grayish-purple under the separable pellicle, 
taste mild, odor of the drying plant fetid, very unpleasant; lamellez 
nearly equal, subdistant, sometimes forked near the stem, at first 
white, then yellowish, becoming brownish where bruised; stem equal, 
glabrous, spongy within, white, brownish where bruised; spores sub- 
globose, minutely rough, pale ochraceous with a salmon tint, .0008 to 
.0004 in. long. 
Pileus 3 to 4 in. broad; stem 2 to 3 in. long, 5 to 8 lines thick. 
Open woods. Gansevoort. July. 
In color this species resembles #. variata, but in other respects it is 
very different. It is very distinct in the peculiar color of its spores, 
and in the brownish hue assumed by wounds. 
Boletus speciosus, Frost. 
Woods. Sandlake and Bethlehem. August. 
A beautiful species belonging to the Calopodes. 
Boletus auriflammeus, B. & C. 
A single specimen of this very rare but well-marked species was 
found in Sandlake. August. 
Boletus purpureus, Fr. 
Oak woods. Menands. August. 
Boletus hemichrysus, B. ¢ C. 
Pine stumps. Gansevoort. July. 
_ The Boleti are generally terrestrial fungi as affirmed by Professor 
Fries in Hym. Europ., but this species appears to be an exception to 
the prevailing habit of the genus. B. subtomentosus, B. paluster and 
B. felleus sometimes grow on decayed wood, but they are usually ter- 
restrial. Of this species only three specimens have been seen, all of 
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