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by Earle, who described it as " white with brown scales." This 

 matches Peck's specimens of P. squarrosoides at Albany exactly. 

 I also have larger specimens, which I collected in 1912 on a sugar 

 maple log on the grounds of the Lake Placid Club. These re- 

 semble typical P. squarrosoides in appearance and grew on its 

 usual host, but they had the strong, unpleasant odor of the Euro- 

 pean P. squarrosa, which can never be forgotten when once ex- 

 perienced. 



I went out on a short collecting trip to the south of Upsala, 

 Sweden, on the afternoon of October 12, 1910, and found a large 

 cluster of P. squarrosa in the hollow trunk of a partly dead Salix 

 alba. The caps were large and covered with large, erect scales, 

 and the stems were very long. It agreed perfectly with specimens 

 in the Fries Herbarium and also with specimens from Bresadola. 

 I took the plants to my room at the hotel and placed them about 

 the porcelain stove to dry while I slept; for the weather was cold 

 and snowy and the stove contained a little fire. I lay down and 

 tried to sleep, but all night long there was that strong, disagree- 

 able odor in my nostrils, unlike anything I had ever smelt before. 

 I can remember it yet ; and I have had no difficulty in recalling it 

 when I collected specimens with the same odor since. 



On September 23, 1912, I was out collecting with Mr. Field at 

 Stockbridge, Massachusetts, when I found by the roadside at the 

 base of an apple-tree a large, dense cluster of mushrooms, which 

 I called P. squarrosa at the time because they had the same strong 

 odor experienced in Sweden. The taste was watery and not par- 

 ticularly unpleasant. I brought the cluster home and Miss Eaton 

 made from it the drawing shown on the accompanying plate. 



Melanoleuca Russula (Scop.) Murrill 

 Tricholoma Russida Gill. 

 Reddish Melanoleuca 



Plate 13. Figure 3. X i 



Pileus fleshy, convex, becoming plane or centrally depressed, 

 obtuse, solitary or subcespitose, 7.5-12.5 cm. broad; surface viscid 

 when moist, smooth or dotted with granular squamules on the 

 disk, pale-pink or rose-red suffused at times with yellowish stains 



