92 MUSHROOMS. 



Yellow or Orange. 



of same color as cap. Gills adnexed, narrowed 

 behind, rather thick, distant, distinct, brighter 

 than the cap. This is also found in autumn in 

 the woods, and is quite common. It has a 

 strange disagreeable odor. 



LACTARIUS DELICIOSUS = delicious. 

 The Delicious Lactarius. 



Cap orange brick color, 2 to 6 inches broad, 

 becoming pale, fleshy, when young depressed 

 in centre, margin turned under (involute), then 

 flat and depressed, or funnel-shaped, with mar- 

 gin unfolded, smooth, zoned, slightly sticky. 

 The zones become faded in the old plants. The 

 flesh is whitish or tinged with yellow. Stem 

 a little paler than the cap, with spots of deeper 

 orange, 1 to 4 inches long, ^ to ^ of an inch 

 thick, stuffed, then hollow, fragile. Gills run- 

 ning down the stem (decurrent), orange color, 

 crowded, narrow, becoming pale and green 

 when wounded. The milk is orange color. It 

 grows in pine woods and in wet, mossy 

 swamps. It resembles the orange brown Lac- 

 tarius in size and shape, but the color is differ- 

 ent, so we have placed it in the orange-colored 

 section and L. volemus in the red division of 

 colors. 



