IOO AGARICINI. 



Lactanus. Edible according to some, but doubtful from its very acrid taste. Spores 



sphaeroid or subsphaeroid, uniguttate, 6-8 mk. K. Na.me—Jlexus ; a bending. 

 Flexuous. From the margin of the pileus. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 163. Hym. 

 Eur. p. 427. Grevillea, vol. x. /. 45. 5. My col. Scot. Supp. Scot. Nat. 

 1885, p. 73. Ag. Schceff. t. 235. Harz. t. 43. 



15. L. pyrogalus Fr. — Pileus 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) broad, 

 cinereous-grey, at length becoming dingy yellow, firm, fleshy, 

 convex becoming plane, margin very soon spreading, depressed, 

 under a lens delicately grumoso - uneven, smooth, in rainy 

 weather moist but not viscid, somewhat zoned ; (flesh somewhat 

 thin, but grumoso-firm, white). Stem 4 cent. {\% in.) and more 

 long, 6-10 mm. (3-5 lin.) thick, stuffed them soon hollow, often 

 attenuated downwards, even or here and there delicately grumoso- 

 tubercular under a lens, smooth, pallid-white, somewhat dingy. 

 Gills adnato-decurrent, thin, somewhat distant, 2 mm. (1 lin.) and 

 more broad, light yellow-wax-colour, the colour rich, inclining to 

 ochraceous. Milk plentiful, white, unchangeable, very acrid. 



Pileus dry in fine weather. Allied to L. jlexuosus, but smaller and thinner. 

 There is a var. like L. fuliginosus with the pileus zoneless and tan-colour, not 

 fuliginous, and the gills yellow and distant. 



In woods and pastures. Frequent. Aug.-Oct. 



Poisonous. Spores sphaeroid or subsphaeroid, echinulate, 6-10 mk. K. ; 

 sparingly echinulate, white or with a suggestion of ochre, almost globular, 

 6 mk. W.G.S. Name — nvp, fire ; yd\a, milk. From the milk being extremely 

 acrid. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 163. Hym. Eur. p. 427. Be?-k. Out. p. 205. 

 C. Hbk. n. 594. S. My col. Scot. n. 558. Ag. Bull. t. 529. f. 1. Krombh. 

 t. 14./. 1-9. 



16. L. squalidus Fr.— Pileus pallid lurid, compact, convexo- 

 plane, umbilicate, dry, smooth, zoneless ; flesh white, sprinkled 

 at the margin with saffron-yellow dots. Stem solid, equal, smooth, 

 pallid brown. Gills adnate, narrow, yellowish. Milk whitish, 

 sweet. 



Its affinity is not clear. Krombholz compares it with L. fuliginosus, but its 

 stature is that of L. pyrogalus, &c, and the pileus is smooth. 



In moist places. Scotland, 1875 ! locality not recorded. 



Name — squalidus, dirty. From the dingy colour. Fr. Hym. Eur. p. 428. 

 B. & Br. n. 1556. S. My col. Scot. n. 559. Ag. Krombh. t. Ap.f. 23-25. 



17. L. capsicum Schulz. — Pileus 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad, chest- 

 nut, paler at the disc, compact, pulvinate, dry, margin closely 

 involute; flesh yellowish, becoming fuscous on exposure to the 

 air. Stem about 2.5 cent. (1 in.) thick, solid, firm, whitish, striate 

 with tawny or rufescent fibres. Gills adnato-decurrent, some- 

 what crowded, tawny, somewhat orange. Milk white, acrid. 



