Murrill; Illustrations of Fungi 
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This pretty wood-loving species is not often seen, although it 
is widely distributed in temperate North America and Europe on 
decaying coniferous trunks. Peck’s Tricholoma multipunctum 
is not distinct. The specimens here figured are unusually small. 
Melaaoleuca fumidella (Peck) Murrill 
Somewhat Clouded IMelanoleuca 
Plate i6o. Figure 4. X i 
Pileus convex, then expanded, subumbonate, 2.5-5 cm. broad ; 
surface smooth, moist, at times rimose-areolate, dingy-white or 
clay-color clouded with rose or brown, becoming paler when 
dried, the disk darker than the margin ; context white, with dis- 
tinctly farinaceous taste and odor ; lamellae white, sinuate, broad, 
subventricose, not crowded; spores 4-5 X 3-5 f*; stipe equal, 
smooth, solid, splitting readily, whitish or pale-pinkish, 5-7.5 cm. 
long, 4-6 mm. thick. 
This species is found rather frequently on the ground in woods 
from New England to North Carolina. The genus is exceedingly 
large and difficult. 
Lactaria Volkertii sp. nov. 
Plate 160. Figure 5 - X i 
Volkert’s Lactaria 
Pileus hemispheric to convex, becoming rather deeply depressed 
at the center, solitary, reaching 7 cm. broad ; surface dry, exactly 
fulvous, finely tomentose, the pellicle slightly separable toward the 
margin, which is somewhat concentrically zonate in mature plants ; 
context very firm, white, mild in taste, with an odor suggestive of 
Russula foetens, but changing in drying ; lamellae crowded, adnate, 
arcuate, some of them forked, showing no colored latex, but becom- 
ing brown when bruised as in species of Lactaria containing watery 
latex; spores globose to subglobose, rough, hyaline, 8-ii /a; stipe 
cylindric, equal, milk-white throughout, becoming brown when 
bruised, very solid and firm, reaching 5.5 cm. long and 2 cm. thick. 
Type collected in moist ground in deciduous woods near Bronx 
Park, New York City, August 6, 1911, W. A. Murrill & E. C. 
V olkert. This beautiful species, which has been collected but once, 
has every mark of a Lactaria except the milky juice. The change 
