110 AGARICINI. 



Lactarius. The largest and most robust of the RussularicB. The milk sometimes 



becomes yellow. Wounds on the gills become dingy. 



In mixed woods. Frequent. Sept.-Oct. 



Stem sculptured longitudinally. M.J.B. Edible, delicious; savoury even 



when raw. Name volema pira, a kind of large pear. From the shape. 



Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 178. Hym. Eur. p. 435. Sv. atl. Sv. t. 10. Berk. Out. 



p. 207. C. Hbk. n. 609. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 575. Hussey i. t. 87. Ag. 



Ventur. t. 34. /. 1-3. Letell. t. 624. Fl. Bat. t. 874. Krombh. t. 39. /. 1-4. 



39. L. ichoratus Fr. Pileus 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) broad, tawny- 

 brick-colour, disc often brown, brick-colour and zoned, fleshy, 

 thin, at first rigid, then softer, obtuse, piano-depressed, often 

 unequal, excentric, occasionally repand, even (not pruinate), very 

 dry, opaque; flesh pallid. Stem 4-7.5 cent. (i/4~3 i n -) I 011 ?) 

 6-10 mm. (3-5 lin.) thick, solid, at first hard, then softer, inter- 

 nally spongy, equal or fusiform downwards, even, smooth, at first 

 tawny, then rufescent. Gills adnate, decurrent with a tooth, 

 scarcely crowded, white then ochraceous, never spotted. Milk 

 white, unchangeable, sweet. 



Allied to L. volemus, but thinner, -very compact -whenyoiing, then softer, 

 strong-smelling. The stem is not so obese as that of L. volemus. 



In woods. Hereford. Oct. 



Name ix^P. lymph. From the colour of the milk. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 179. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 436. Grevillea, vol. viii. p. 98. Ag. Batschf. 60. 



40. L. serifluus Fr. Pileus brown-tawny, zoneless, fleshy, 

 plane then depressed, somewhat flexuous, dry, smooth, margin 

 inflexed. Stem solid, yellowish, paler than the pileus, somewhat 

 incurved. Gills crowded, of the same colour as the stem. Milk 

 scanty, somewhat insipid, of the colour of serum. 



In mixed woods. Frequent. Aug.-Nov. 



Pileus 2.5-5 cent. (1-2 in.) broad. It must be carefully distinguished from 

 L. camphoratus to which it is similar in appearance and in the nature of the 

 milk. The scent of L. camphoratus distinguishes it. Name serum, whey; 

 fluo, to flow. From the nature of the milk. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 436. Berk. 

 Out. p. 207. /. 13. f. 4. C. Hbk. n. 607. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 576. Ag. 

 Krombh. t. 40. f. 15, 16. 



41. L. mitissimus Fr. Pileus 2.5-7.5 cent. (1-3 in.) broad, 

 golden -tawny, zoneless, fleshy, thin, somewhat rigid, convex, 

 papillate, depressed, papilla vanishing, even, smooth, somewhat 

 slippery when moist; flesh pallid. Stem elongated, 2.5-7.5 cent. 

 (1-3 in.) long, 8-12 mm. (y-}4 m -) thick, stuffed then hollow, 

 even, smooth, of the same colour as the pileus. Gills adnato- 

 decurrent, somewhat arcuate, then tense and straight, 2-3 mm. 



