114 Twenty-third Report on the State Cabinet. 



Height l'-3', breadth of pileus8"-18". 

 Open woods. IS'orth Greenbush. October. 



5. HyGEOPIIOEUS C0iS"GELATUS 71. Sp. 



Pileus thin, convex, even, smooth or obscurely fibrillose, 

 sordid red, sometimes tinged with yellow ; lamellae few, dis- 

 tant, broad, subemarginate, decurrent-toothed, bright red ; 

 stipe equal, slender, smooth, solid, red, yellow within. 



Height 1', breadth of pileus 4"- 6", stipe about 1" thick. 



Banks by roadsides. N'orth Elba. September. 



The specimens were collected in dry weather, but when 

 moistened the pileus apjDears to be viscid. It has a peculiar, 

 faded, dingy red appearance as if frost-bitten ; whence the 

 name. At first sight the plant might be taken for small Hy- 

 gro2?horus miniatus^ from which it is clearly distinct by the 

 smooth pileus and the color and character of the lamellae. 



6. Htgeophorus Cat^thaeellus Schw. 



Pileus thin, convex, at length umbilicate or centrally de- 

 pressed, minutely squamulose, moist, bright red, becoming 

 orange or yellow ; lamelhe distant, subarcuate, decurrent, 

 yellow, sometimes tinged with vermilion ; stipe smooth, equal, 

 subsolid, sometimes becoming hollow, concolorous, whitish 

 within. 



Height 2-4', breadth of pileus 6"-12", stipe l"-2" thick. 



Swamps and damp shaded places in fields or woods. July- 

 September. Common. 



Yar. rosea has the pileus expanded and the margin wavy 

 scolloped. Swamps. Sandlake. 



7. Hygeophoeus nitidus B. & R. 



Pileus thin, fleshy, convex, broadly umbilicate, smooth, 

 shining, viscid, pale yellow with the margin striatulate when 

 moist, nearly white when dry ; lamellae arcuate, decurrent, 

 yellow ; stipe slender, brittle, smooth, viscid, hollow, yellow ; 

 flesh 3'ellow. 



Height 2'- 4', breadth of pileus 8"- 12", stipe l"-2" thick. 



Swamps. Sandlake. August. 



The cavity of the stem is very small. (Plate 1, figs. 2-G.) 



Genus— LACTARIUS Fr. 



Hymenophorum confluent with tlie stem and vesiculose trama. 

 Gills milky, edge acute. — Berk. Outl. 



