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becoming snbochraceous sometimes with one or two narrow orange 

 zones near the margin, flesh white, taste mild, milk watery, scanty; 

 lamellae unequal, close, adnate, whitish becoming ochraceous buff; 

 stem soft, equal, glabrous, stuft"ed or hollow, colored like or a little 

 paler than the pileus ; spores subglobose, 6-8 !j. in diameter. 



Pileus 1-4 cm broad; stem 1.5-3.5 ^^ lo^g. 4-8 mm thick. 



Among mosses in swamps. Xatick, ]\Iass. September and 

 October. G. E. ^Morris and S. Davis. 



A very rare species hitherto known from no other locality, and 

 only sparingly found in this one. It may be easily recognized by 

 its small size, very viscid subochraceous pileus, mild taste and 

 watery, unchangeable milk. In one or two cases ver}- young speci- 

 mens have appeared to have white milk, but in mature specimens 

 the milk is constantly watery. This is doubtless its normal color. 



Pileus tenuis, late convexus subplanusve, margine levis, subum- 

 bonatus, viscosus, rufus deinde subochraceus, aliquando juxta 

 marginem zona angusta auratiaca ornatus, carne alba, sapore miti, 

 lacte aquoso, parco ; lamellae inaequales, conf ertae, adnatae, albidae, 

 deinde flavo-ochraceae; stipes mollis, aequalis, glaber, farctus ca- 

 vusve, colore pileo simiHs vel pallidior; sporae subglobosae, 

 6-8 !J- latae. 



Naucoria sphagnophila 



Pileus thin, convex becoming nearly plane, minutely appressed 

 tomentose and sometimes flocculose squamulose, hygrophanous, 

 when young and moist tinged with flesh color, becoming buff white 

 in drying, grayish ochraceous or rusty brown when mature; lamel- 

 lae thin, narrow, subsinuate, close, unequal, uneven on the edge, 

 yellowish becoming ferruginous ; stem equal, fiexuous, solid or at 

 length hollow, yellowish with a slight floccose tomentum at the top, 

 white tomentose at the base ; spores ellipsoid. 8-9 x 4-5 v.. 



Pileus 1.2-2.4 cm broad; stem 2.5-4.5 cm long, 2-3 mm thick. 



Gregarious. In sphagnum in a swamp. Stow, ]\Iass. July. 

 S. Davis. 



Pileus tenuis, convexus vel subplanus, minute tomentosulus, ali- 

 quando floccoso-squamulosus, hygrophanus. in juventate sabincar- 

 natus, in maturitate griseo-ochraceus vel ferrugineus ; lamellae 

 tenues, angustae, subsinuatae, confertae, inaequales. acie erosae, 

 flavidae, deinde f erruginae ; stipes aequalis, flexuosus, solidus. deinde 

 fistulosus, luteolus. ad apicem minute floccoso-tomentosulus. basi 

 albido-tomentosus ; sporae ellipsoideae, 8-9x4-5 p. 



