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8. Pileus light red, becoming paler ; lamellae whitish but tinted. H. viinutulus Pk. 

 Pileus sordid red, often spotted ; lamellae shining red. H. congelatus Pk. 



9. Pileus rose color. H. cantharellus roseus Pk. 

 Pileus shining red becoming yellowish ; lamellae white. H. speciosus Pk. 

 Pileus cinnabar red ; lamellae and stipe cinnabar. PP. cinnabarinns Schw. 



10. Pileus some shade of yellow or orange (not red). II. 

 Pileus some shade of red (sometimes becoming yellowish). 12. 

 Pileus green. H. psittacinus Fr. 

 Pileus some shade of brown. 14. 



11. Pileus golden yellow ; lamellae yellow, the margins orange or purplish. 



H. marginatus Pk. 

 Pileus yellow with purplish disc ; lamellae rose-color or brown. 



PP. Ohiensis Mont. 

 Pileus orange ; lamellae paler. PI. Ravenelii B. & C. 



12. Pileus blood red ; lamellae yellow ; stipe red, thin, pallid. 



H. haematocephalus B. & C. 

 Pileus red (sometimes yellowish). 13. 



13. Pileus convex, obtuse, not blackening. H. c/ilorophanus Fr. 

 Pileus conical, acute, blackening when wet. PP. conicus (Scop.) Fr. 

 Pileus campanulate, cuspidate. H. cuspidatus Pk. 



14. Pileus gray, brown-spotted, lamellae white. PI. variolosus Fr. 

 Pileus greenish or yellowish-brown, lamellae white or yellow. 



H. immutabilis Pk. 

 New York Botanical Garden. 



SHORTER NOTES 



A sea-beach Helianthus from Florida. — During the 

 summers of 1896 and 1897, the Rev. L. H. Lighthipe collected 

 specimens of an exceptionally succulent sunflower on the coast 

 near San Pablo, east of Jacksonville, Florida. The plant has 

 the floral characters of the genus Helianthus, but differs from all 

 our previously known species in habit, especially in the fleshy 

 tissues and the almost glabrous involucral bracts : 



Helianthus carnosus. — Perennial, essentially glabrous, fleshy. 

 Stem solitary, erect from a slightly inclined base, 3-7 dm. tall, 

 simple: basal leaves with linear or oblong-linear blades 7-15 

 cm. long, these often accompanied by several shorter and 

 relatively broader ones ; stem-leaves mainly alternate, the lower 

 two or four opposite by pairs, the succeeding ones narrowly 

 linear, all entire, sessile : flower-head solitary : outer bracts of 



