Report of the Botanist. 73 



Plant 3'-4' high, pileus 2'-3' broad, stem 3-5" thick. Ground 

 in cleared places. Greig. September. (Plate 1, ligs. 1-3.) 

 A line species. The flesh of the stem is violaceous. 



CORTINARIUS EVERXIUS F7\ 



Low wet grounds in woods. Sandlake. August. Our speci- 

 mens do not quite agree with the description, the stem being silky- 

 fibrillose, not scaly. 



GoMPHiDius visciDrs Fr. 



Ground in pine woods. Sandlake and West Albany. October. 



Hygeophoeus puniceus Fr. 



Ground in woods. Greig. September. 



Hygeophoeus l^tus Fr. 



Ground in cleared places, growing under Pteris aquilina. Greig. 

 September. 



Hygeophoeus psittacii^us Fr. 



Ground in open places. Greig. September. 



Lactaeius insulsus Fr. - 



Damp ground in open woods. Greenbush. July. 



Lactaeius teiyialis Fr. 



Ground in woods. Poughkeepsie. W. R. Gerard. Greig. 

 September. 



Our plant does not agree rigidly with the description, the pileus 

 being sometimes zonate and the stem rather slender and not always 

 hollow. The lamellae and flesh slowly change to a greenish or 

 olivaceous color when wounded, though the milk is unchangeable. 

 Future observation may show it to be a distinct species, but at 

 present I prefer to consider it an aberrant form of Z. trivialis. 



Lactaeius cineeeus n. sp. 



Pileus fleshy, at length expanded, centrally depressed, usually 

 umbilicate, smooth, viscid, light gray with the disk sometimes a 

 little darker ; lamell&e narrow, close, white ; stem equal or slightly 

 tapering upward, smooth, stuffed, colored like the pileus ; spores 

 3TrD-'~Wro' i^ diameter. Flesh and milk white, unchangeable, 

 taste acrid. 



Plant 2' -3' high, pileus l'-2' broad, stem S"-4:" thick. Ground 

 in woods. Sandlake and Greig. August and September. Allied 

 to Z. vietus. 



