Agaricaceae 



Lactarius. base, 1/122 lines broad, white then soon brick-red. Milk white, un- 

 changeable, sweet. Fries. 



In woods. August to November. Stevenson. 

 Spores echinulate, 8-iox6-7/A Massee; IO-I2/* Cooke. 

 Nova Scotia, Somers; New York, Peck, Rep. 42. 

 Edible. Cooke. Eaten in France and held in estimation. 



L. theio'galus Fr. Gr. brimstone; milk. Pileus 2-5 in. broad, 

 fleshy, thin, convex, then depressed, even, glabrous, viscid, tawny- 

 reddish. Lamellae adnate or decurrent, close, pallid or reddish. Stem 

 1-3 in. long, 4-10 lines thick, stuffed or hollow, even, colored like the 

 pileus. Spores yellowish, inclining to pale flesh-color, subglobose, 7 . 5-9^. 

 Milk white, changing to sulphur-yellow, taste tardily acrid, bitterish. 



Woods and groves. Common. July to October. 



Our plant does not fully accord with the description of the species as 

 given by Fries. Peck, 38th Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Spores subglobose, 7-Syu- diameter Masse'e; subglobose, 7.5-9^ Peck. 



West Virginia, 1881-1885; Mt. Gretna, Pa. July, 1897; New 

 Jersey, common in mixed woods. July to frost. Mcllvaine. 



L. theiogalus possesses all the good qualities of the hot milk species. 

 While I ate it whenever I chose in West Virginia, I did not again eat it 

 until 1897 at Mt. Gretna. There several partook of it and thought it 

 rather coarse, but of good flavor. It requires long cooking. 



L. fllligino'silS Fr. fnligo, soot. PileilS 1-2.5 in- broad, firm, be- 

 coming soft, convex plane or slightly depressed, even, dry, zoneless, 

 dingy as/i-color or buff-gray, appearing as if covered with a dingy pru- 

 inosity, the margin sometimes wavy or lobed. Gills adnate or subde- 

 current, subdistant, whitish then yellowish, becoming stained with pink- 

 red or salmon-color where wounded. Stem 12 in. long, 35 lines thick, 

 equal or slightly tapering downward, firm, stuffed, colored like the 

 pileus. Spores globose, yellowish, 7.5-10/1*. Milk white, taste tardily 

 and sometimes slightly acrid. 



Thin woods and open grassy places. Greenbush and Sandlake, N. Y. 

 July and August. Peck, 38th Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



A form with the pileus colored like that of L. lignyotus, but with the 

 gills much closer than in that species, was found in a swamp near Sevey. 

 July. Peck, 43d Rep. 



POISONOUS. Barla and Reveil, Cordier. 



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