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smaller size, more clustered mode of growth, more distant lamel- 

 lae, villose tomentose base of the stem and smaller spores. The 

 stem is almost lateral but the pileus usually has a perceptibly entire 

 margin, of which the part nearest the stem is reduced to a narrow 

 thin rim, which is scarcely more than an elevated line in the dried 

 specimens. 



Pleurotus candidissimus B. & C. 



Dead and decaying wood. Warrensburg, Warren co. October. 



Hygrophorus subviolaceus n. sp. 



PLATE C, fig. 1 1- 1 j 



Pileus firm, hemispheric becoming convex, glabrous, viscid, hygro- 

 phanous, violaceous when moist, paler or grayish when dry, flesh 

 white; lamellae arcuate, distant, decurrent, pale violaceous; stem 

 equal or tapering downward, solid, glabrous, white; spores subglo- 

 bose or broadly elliptic, .00024 to .0003 of an inch long, .0002 to .00024 

 broad. 



Pileus 1 to 1.5 of an inch broad; stem 1 to 1.5 of an inch long, 2 

 to 4 lines thick. Damp, mucky ground in swamps. MeadowdaW. 

 October. 



The species belongs to the tribe Limacium. In the dried speci- 

 mens the pileus is nearly black and the lamellae are smoky brown. 



Russula palustris n. sp. 



Pileus thin, fragile, subglobose or hemispheric, then convex or 

 nearly plane, viscid when moist, the thin pellicle separable, varying 

 in color from reddish buff to pale purplish red, obscurely tubercu- 

 late striate on the margin, flesh white, tinged with reddish buff under 

 the pellicle, taste tardily acrid; lamellae entire, moderately close, 

 whitish becoming yellowish, interspaces venose; stem equal, gla- 

 brous, spongy within or hollow, fragile, white, sometimes tinged with, 

 red; spores subglobose, .0003 to .0004 of an inch broad, uninucleate. 



Pileus 2 to 3 inches broad; stem 1.5 to 3 inches long, 4 to 6 lines 

 thick. Swamps under alders. Jayville, St Lawrence co. August. 



Allied to R. decolorans, but smaller, thinner, more fragile, tar- 

 dily acrid and not discoloring or assuming cinereous hues with age. 



