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The first and second varieties have occurred within our limits. The 

 first also has the stem elastic and furnished with a whitish or grayish to- 

 mentum or strigose villosity at the base, when growing among moss in 

 swamps. A form occurred in Sandlake, in which some of the speci- 

 mens were proliferous. The umbo had developed into a minute pileus. 

 With us the prevailing color of the pileus is yellowish-red or cinnamon- 

 red. Sometimes the color is almost the same as that of L. volemus and 

 L. hygrophoroides, and again it is a tan color or a bay red, as in L. 

 camphoratus, from which such specimens are scarcely separable, except 

 by their lack of odor. In young plants the pileus usually has a moist 

 appearance, which is sometimes retained in maturity. Cordier pronoun- 

 ces the species edible, and says that he has tested it several times with- 

 out inconvenience. 



Lactarius paludinellus, n. sp. 



Little marsh Lactarius. 



Pileus thin, plane or slightly depressed, striatulate on the margin, 

 glabrous, generally with a small blackish umbo or papilla, at first dingy 

 brown, becoming paler with age ; lamellae moderately close, adnate or 

 slightly decurrent, cream colored ; stem nearly equal, stuffed or hollow, 

 glabrous, with a white strigose-villosity at the base, paler than or colored 

 like the pileus ; spores .0003 to .00035 in.; milk white, taste mild. 



Pileus 6 to 12 lines broad, stem 10 to 18 lines long, 1.5 to 2 thick. 



Among sphagnum, in shaded marshes. Sandlake. August. 



A small and rare species, related to but distinct from L. sublucis by 

 its brownish expellent pileus and striatulate margin. 



NEW YORK SPECIES OF PLUTEUS. 



* PLUTEUS, .Fr. 



Hymenophorum distinct from the fleshy or fleshy-fibrous stem , lam- 

 ellae rounded behind, free, at first crowded, white or yellowish, then 

 flesh-colored ; annulus and volva none. 



The Plutei, in the pink-spored series of Agarics, correspond very 

 nearly in structure to the Lepiotae in the white-spored series. They 

 differ from the Lepiotae in having no annulus ; and by its absence they 

 are distinguished from the Annulariae of their own series, and by the 

 absence of a volva, from the Volvariae. By their free lamelfae they are 

 readily separated from all other pink-spored Agarics. The species are 

 generally of medium or moderately small size. Nearly all inhabit decay- 

 ing wood in groves or in the shades of forests, but the common Fawn 

 Agaric, P. cervinus, is often found on old stumps in open situations 

 where it is exposed to the full light of the sun. The pileus may be 

 floccose-fibrillose, pruinose-pulverulent or glabrous, and by these char- 

 acters Fries has separated the species into three groups. In some 

 species the central part of the pileus is more or less rugose-wrinkled or 

 uneven. The lamellae are at first compactly crowded (cohaerent) very 



