76 LACTARIAE OF THE UNITED STATES 
decurrent, 3 mm. broad ; stem rufous, but often paler than the 
pileus, nearly equal, dry, glabrous, or sometimes pruinose and 
downy at the base, stuffed, firm, at length sometimes hollow, 5-10 
cm. long, 6-10 mm. thick ; flesh pallid or tinged with pink, no 
odor; spores white, subglobose to broadly elliptical, slightly 
echinulate, 7-8; latex white, unchanging, very acrid. Very 
potsonous. 
Has.: “Low woods and swamps” (Peck). August. 
Disrris.: New York, Peck ; Michigan, Longyear. 
Плозт.: Cooke, Br. Fungi, //. 085; Eng. & Prantl, Nat. 
Pflanzenfam. 1%%:/ rro А; Fr. Sverig. Svamp. ai тт; Gillet, 
pl. 163 [391]; Gauthier, Champ. A. r2. f. г, 2 (poor); Hahn, 
Der Pilz-Sammler, ed. 2. f. 15 (poor); Hussey, Illust. Br. Myc. 
1: pl. 75; Krombh. Abbild. ai 39. f. 12-15 ; Lanzi, Fung. Mang. 
pt. saf з @ be (coloring poor); Lucand, Champ. Fr. pl. 223; 
НурорйуЙит torminosum Paulet, Icon. Champ. ai 22; Rolland, 
Bull. Soc. Myc.Fr. 7: pl. 2. f.3; Rich. & Roze, Atl. Champ. Fr. 
Bl. 37. f. 16-19. 
Exsic.: Herpell, Sammlung prapariter Hutpilze 108%; Karsten, 
Fungi Fennici 226; Krieger, Fungi Saxonici 480; Sydow, 
Mycotheca Marchica 609 and 2720. : 
DISTINGUISHING FIELD-MARKs: The dark-red, dry, umbonate 
pileus, the whitish down on the incurved margin of the young 
pileus, the very acrid milk, and the large size of the plant. The | 
pileus is only minutely flocculose at first and soon becomes gla- 
brous and shining. The species seems to be rare in the United 
States. It has been reported from Vermont by Frost and from 
Rhode Island by Bennett. 
45. Lactaria Peckii sp. nov. 
close, decurrent by a tooth, 3 mm, broad; stem dull pale reddish- 
