186 NORTH AMERICAN FLORA [VoLuME 9 
glabrous, stuffed, becoming hollow, 4-5 cm. long, 1.5-2.5 cm. thick: spores tinted yellow- 
ish-salmon in mass, subglobose, echinulate, 7-8 » in diameter. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Pisgah Forest, North Carolina. 
HaBitat: In sandy loam and dense shade, oak-chestnut woods. 
DISTRIBUTION : Pisgah Forest, North Carolina. 
ILLUSTRATION: Mem. Torrey Club 14: 39. f. 4. 
X. Deliciosae. Pileus broad; margin involute at first and naked; surface indigo- 
blue or some shade of orange, viscid when wet, glabrous: context firm, edible; latex 
colored from the first, staining the flesh at first the same color, at length more or less 
greenish, acrid; lamellae usually fading with age or becoming tinged with greenish. 
31. Lactaria deliciosa (1,.) Fries, Epicr. Myc. 341. 1838. 
Agaricus deliciosus ,. Sp. Pl. 1172. 1753. 
Pileus fleshy, convex-umbilicate, becoming plane, then infundibuliform, 5-12 cm. 
broad; surface orange, yellow-orange or paler, zoned with deeper orange, becoming paler 
with age, sometimes mixed with grayish and greenish tints, viscid when wet, glabrous, 
somewhat roughened; margin involute, then arched and at length upturned, glabrous: 
context firm, yellowish, often staining greenish next the lamellae and the exterior of the 
stipe, edible; latex orange to red-orange, aromatic and somewhat acrid; lamellat deep- 
orange with yellowish reflections, paler when old, often becoming greenish with age or 
where bruised, many forking near the stipe, and shorter ones branching into longer ones, 
often connected with cross veins at the base, close, somewhat decurrent, rather narrow; 
stipe of the same color as the pileus, spotted with brighter orange, nearly equal, glabrous, 
or sometimes a little tomentose at the base, smooth, stuffed, becoming hollow, 2.5-10 cm. 
long, 8-12 mm. thick: spores yellow, subglobose to elliptic, slightly echinulate, more or 
less hyaline, 8-8.5 & 8-11 z. 
TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden. 
HaBitaTt: In moist woods, especially under firs and hemlocks. 
DISTRIBUTION : Eastern United States from Maine to Florida, and in Colorado ; also in Europe. 
ILLUSTRATIONS: Atk. Stud. Am. Fungi p/. 35, 7. 1; Badham, Escul. Mushr. Engl. p/. 6, f. 2; 
Barla, Champ. Nice f/. 19, f 1-5, G. Bernard, Champ. Rochelle p/. 39, f. 1 ;- Boyer, Champ. fi. 
32; Bres. Funghi Mang. p/. 67; Cooke, Brit. Fungi p/. 952: E. & P. Nat. PA. D**: f. 110, D; Fl. 
Dan, pl. 1131; Gibson, Edible Toadst. p/. 18; Gill’) Champ. Fr. p/. 49 (166; 382); Hahn, Pilz- 
Samml. /. 20; Harzer, Abbild. Pilze f/. 10; Hussey, Ill. Brit. Myc. 1: pf. 67; Krombh. Abbild. 
pl. 11; Lanzi, Funghi Mang. pl. 53, 7. 2, F. Lorinser. Essb. Schwamme p/. 8, f.5; Lucand, Champ. 
Fr, pl. 167; Mcllv. Am. Fungi f/. 41, 7.3; Richon & Roze, Atl. Champ. p/. 38, f. 1-5; Bull. Soc. 
Myc. Fr.7: 1.2, 7.2; Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. p/. 12, Sow. Engl.Fungi p/. 202, Fries, Sv. Aetl. 
Say - 6; Venturi, Studi Micol. /. 55,56; Vitt. Deser. Funghi Mang. o/. 42, Viviani, Fung. 
Ital. pl. 23. 
ExsiccaTi: Burl. Lact. N. Am. 27; Herpell, Prap. Hutpilze 107 ; P. Karst. Fungi Fenn. 509 ; 
Sydow, Myc. Mar. 610. 
32. Lactaria Chelidonium Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State 
Mus. 24: 74. 1872. 
Pileus fleshy, convex, then plane with the center more or less depressed, 5-8 cm. 
broad ; surface grayish-yellow or tawny, at length stained with bluish and greenish, usually 
with two or three narrow zones near the margin, slightly viscid when wet, glabrous; 
margin involute at first and naked: context firm, whitish, staining saffron-yellow from the 
latex, then becoming bluish and at length greenish, edible; latex saffron-yellow, mild, 
scanty ; lamellae saffron-yellow mixed with gray, sometimes forking, close, anastomosing 
at the base, adnate, then slightly decurrent, narrow; stipe of the same color as the pileus, 
nearly equal, glabrous, becoming hollow, 2.5-4 cm. long, 10-12 mm. thick: spores yellowish, 
globular to broadly elliptic, echinulate, 7 x 8-9 y., 
TYPE LOCALITY: New York. 
HaBitaT: Under or near pine trees, in sandy soil, or in dry spruce woods. 
DISTRIBUTION : From Vermont and New York to Alabama. 
ILLUSTRATION: Atk. Stud. Am. Fungi p/. 35, f. 2. 
EXSICCATI: Burl. Lact. N. Am. 49. 
