Leucosporee 



sulcate-striate. The flesh is grayish or reddish-gray. The color of the Lactarins. 

 lamellae varies from creamy-white to tawny-yellow. The stem often has 

 a conspicuous white myceloid tomentum at its base. I have never 

 found this plant with a white or milky juice, and therefore I am dis- 

 posed to regard it not as a variety of L. helvus, but as a distinct species. 

 Its mild taste and agreeable odor suggested a trial of its edible qualities. 

 It is harmless, but the lack of flavor induces me to omit it from the list 

 of edible species. Peck, 5Oth Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Var. brevis simus Pk. Pileus 11.5 m - broad, grayish-buff. Gills 

 crowded, adnate, yellowish or cream-color. Stem very short, 68 lines 

 long. 



Black mucky soil in roads in woods. Township 24, Franklin county. 

 September. 



Plant fragrant ; sometimes cespitose. Peck, 5 ist Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Angora, West Philadelphia, in moist oak woods. August, 1897, 

 Philadelphia Myc. Center. 



Flesh rather hard when cooked, and insipid. Good as an absorbent 

 or in emergency. 



L. lignyo'tllS Fr. lignum, wood. Pileus 1-4 in. broad, broadly 

 convex plane or slightly depressed, dry, with or without a small umbo, 

 generally rugose-wrinkled, dark-brown, appearing sub pulverulent or as 

 if suffused with a dingy pruinosity , the margin sometimes crenately 

 lobed and distinctly plicate. Gills moderately close or subdistant, ad- 

 nate, white or yellowish, slowly changing to pinkish-red or salmon color 

 where wounded. Stem 1-3 in. long, 2-6 lines thick, equal or abruptly 

 narrowed at the apex, even, glabrous, stuffed, colored like the pileus, 

 sometimes plicate at the top. Milk white, taste mild or tardily and 

 slightly acrid. 



Var. tenuipes. Pileus about I in. broad. Stem slender, 2-3 in. 

 long and about 2 lines thick. 



Wet or mossy ground in woods and swamps. Adirondack mountains 

 and Sandlake. July and August. Not rare in hilly and mountainous 

 districts. Peck, 38th Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Spores globose, yellowish, 9-11.3^ Peck; pale ochraceous, subglo- 

 bose, minutely echinulate, 9-10/1, diameter Massee. 



West Virginia mountains, 1881-1885; Eagle's Mere; Mt. Gretna, 



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