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brown and the lamellae white, the third has the pileus blackish 

 brown, the stem pallid or grayish brown and the lamellae smoky 

 white. Reddish stains sometimes occur on any part of the plant. 

 These are possibly due to insect injury. The umbo is often very 

 obtuse or almost flat at the top. This species is separated from 

 M. rugosa by its moist umbonate pileus, its long stem, its 

 straight, not oblique, rooting base and by its habitat. The villos 

 ity at the base of the stem is grayish white. 



Hygrophorus subrufescens n. sp. 



PLATE M, FIG. 1-6 



Pileus fleshy, but thin on the margin, convex or nearly plane, 

 dry, minutely floccose squamulose, pale pink or grayish i-(m1. 

 flesh whitish, faintly tinged with pink, taste mild; lamellae sub- 

 distant, decurrent, whitish; stem rather long, equal or nearly so, 

 flexuous, glabrous, solid, white; spores elliptic, .0003 of an inch 

 long, .0002 broad. 



Pileus about 1 inch broad; stem 1.5-3 inches long, 2-4 lines 

 thick. Among fallen leaves in woods. Port Jefferson, Suffolk 

 CO. August. 



This species belongs to the section Camarophyllus, and is 

 related to H. leporinus, from which it may be separated by 

 its different color, thinner margin of the pileus and glabrous 



stem. 



Hygrophorus peckii Atk. 



Woods, pastures and bushy places. July and August. Ithaca. 

 G. F. Atkinson. Gansevoort, Saratoga co., Westport, Essex co. 

 and Piseco, Hamilton co. It is most closely related to 

 H. psittacinus, from which it is separated by its odor 

 and decurrent lamellae. 



Lactarius luteolus Pk. 



PI.ATE 8;{. FIG. 7-11 



Among fallen leaves in woods. Port Jefferson. August. A 

 very distinct species, easily known by its mild taste, copious milk, 

 changing from white to brown on exposure to the air, and by the 

 somewhat viscid pubescence of the pileus and stem. Milk flows 

 readily from any part of the plant on the slightest injury, and 

 wounds assume a dark brown color. The plant is edible; and 

 is more fully described in another part of this report. 



