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what distant, rather broad (4 mm., 2 lin. and more), connected by 

 branches (but not dichotomous), pallid, watery white. Milk 

 white, scanty, very bitter. 



Large, hard, rigid. The pileus tends to become pallid reddish-tan. Very 

 much allied to L. piperatus. On being broken it sometimes changes to pallid 

 sulphur-yellow, but after a time becomes white again. Easily confounded 

 with Russula, delica. 



In woods. Common. Sept-Dec. 



Spores hardly echinulate, 4 x 8 mk. IV. G.S. Name vellus, fleece. From 

 the pubescence. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 167. Hym. Eur. p. 430. Berk. Out. p. 

 206. C. Hbk. n. 599. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 565. Hussey \. t. 63. Ag. Klotsch 

 Fl. Bor. t. 469. Bar la t. 22.. f. 6-8. Krombh. t. 57. /. 10-13. Sow. t. 104. 



23. L. exsuccus Smith. Pileus clothed with adpressed down, 

 fleshy, depressed, with an involute margin. Stem very short, 

 white, clothed with adpressed down. Gills decurrent, con- 

 nected by veins, and forked, white, shaded with verdigris. 



Whole plant rigid and brittle, milkless. 

 In woods. Uncommon. 



Considered by some to be a var. of L. vellerezts. It must be regarded as a 

 distinct species, but I retain it among Lactarii only in deference to the 

 opinion of others. Spores covered with spines, almost globular, 9 mk. 

 W. G.S. Name ex, succus, juice; juiceless. Sm.Journ.Bot. 1873,^.336. 

 S. Mycol. Scot. n. 566. L. vellereus var. exsuccus. Fr. Hym. Eicr. p. 430. 

 Berk. Out. p. 206. C. Hbk. n. 599. Ag. Berk. Eng. Fl. v. /. 31. 



24. L. scoticus B. Br. Pileus depressed-tomentose then 

 smooth, the involute margin tomentose ; flesh firm. Stem 

 somewhat unequal, smooth, somewhat flesh-colour. Gills thin, 

 scarcely branched. Milk persistently white, acrid. 



Odour pungent. 



Among moss. Aboyne. 1862. 



Name Scottish. B. 6^ Br. n. 1783. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 564. 



TRIBE II. DAPETES. 

 Milk at first deeply coloured, Qr^c. 



25. L. deliciOSUS Fr. Pileus 5-15 cent. (2-6 in.) broad, orange- 

 brick-colour, becoming pale, fleshy, when quite young depressed 

 in the centre, margin naked, involute, then piano-depressed or 

 broadly infundibuliform with the margin unfolded, smooth, 

 slightly viscid, zoned (zones sometimes obsolete) ; flesh soft, 

 not compact, pallid, coloured at the circumference only by the 

 juice. Stem 2.5-5 cent - ( r ~ 2 m O an d more long, about 2.5 



