94 AGARICINI. 



Lactarius. pileus wholly white and tomentose Sow. t. 103. In another form the pileus is 

 smooth, zoneless, white. In a variety the pileus is at length excentric, whitish, 

 cracked in a tesselated manner, margin spreading, naked. 



In mixed woods. Common. Aug.-Nov. 



Spores subsphceroid, echinulate, 6-8 mk. K. ; 9x6mk. W.G.S. Name 

 tormina, gripes. Causing gripes. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 153. Hym. Eur. p. 

 422. Sv. dtL Sv. t. 28. Berk. Out. p. 203. C. Hbk. n. 582. S. MycoL 

 Scot. n. 547. Ag. Scheeff. t. 12. Fl. Dan. t. 1068. Sv. Bot. t. 184. Bull, 

 t. 529. /. 2. Krombh. t. 13. f. 15-23. Ventur. t. 30. f. 2. Barla t. i8./. 7-10. 

 Harz. t. ii. 



3. L. cilicioides Fr. Pileus 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) broad, flesh- 

 colour inclining to fuscous, fleshy, convex then flattened and 

 depressed in the centre, everywhere tomentose, viscous, zoneless, 

 margin involute, fibrilloso-woolly ; flesh not very compact, yellow- 

 ish-white. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 2.5 cent, (i in.) thick, 

 firm, stuffed, somewhat hollow only when old, equal, even, 

 pruinato-silky under a lens, pallid, never pitted or spotted. Gills 

 decurrent, crowded, branched, white inclining to yellow. Milk 

 acrid, 'white or light yellow-white. 



The stem is dingy, not of a pure colour as in L. torminosus, c. Inter- 

 mediate between L. torminosus and L. turpis. 



In woods. Frequent. Sept.-Nov. 



Name /aAuaoi/, goat's-hair cloth ; etSos, appearance. Fr. Monogr. \\.p. 154. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 422. Berk. Out. p. 203. C. Hbk. n. 583. S. MycoL Scot. n. 

 548. Ag. Schceff. t. 228. Krombh. t. 58.7. 11-13 var - B - & Br. n. 1887. 



4. L. turpis Fr. Pileus large, as much as 30 cent. (12 in.) 

 broad, olivaceous inclining to umber, fleshy, rigid, convex be- 

 coming plane, disc-shaped or umbilicate, at length depressed, 

 innato-villous at the circumference or wholly, covered over with 

 tenacious gluten, zoneless, sometimes tawny towards the margin, 

 at length entirely inclining to umber; margin for a long time 

 involute, at the first villous, olivaceous-light-yellow, then more or 

 less flattened, at length often densely rivuloso-sulcate ; flesh com- 

 pact, white, then slightly rufescent. Stem 4-7.5 cent. (iK~3 m> ) 

 long, 1-2.5 cent. (}4-i in.) and more thick, solid, hard, equal or 

 attenuated downwards, even or pitted and uneven, but not spotted, 

 viscid or dry, pallid or dark olivaceous, ochraceous-whitish at the 

 apex. Gills adnato-decurrent, thin, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) broad, 

 much crowded, forked, white straw-colour, spotted fuscous when 

 broken or bruised. Milk acrid, white, unchangeable. 



Gregarious, rigidly and compactly fleshy ; habit almost that of Paxillus 

 involutes. It varies with the stem hollow, and the pileus somewhat zoned. 



In woods, roadsides, &c. Common. Sept.-Nov. 



