268 AGARICACE^E Lactarius 



Russulares. Stem central. Gills pallid, then changing colour 



to darker, glancing when turned to the light, at length white 



pruinose. Milk at first white, mild or from mild turning acrid. 



Films at first viscid. 1277—1283 



Pileus not lustrous, squamulose, villous or pruinose. 



1284—1294 

 Pileus lustrous, smooth. 1295 — 1304 



Pleuropod/E. Stem excentric or lateral. Growing on trunks. 1305 



Piperites. 

 a. Tricholomoidece. 



1245. L. serobieulatus Fr. (from the pitted stem ; scrobis, a trench) 



a b c. 

 P. convex, then infundibuliform, villous-downy ; marg. at first 

 appendiculate, yellowish or buff. St. stuffed to hollow, equal, 

 light yellowish or white above, tan below. G. thin, crowded, 

 whitish to yellowish. Milk white, then sulphur-yellowish. 



Taste very acrid ; odour not unpleasant. Woods, on the ground, damp 

 places. Sept.-Oct. 9 X 2\ X ih in. Pileus sometimes 12 in. in diam. 



1246. L. intermedius B. & Br. (from its position between 1245, 1247 



and 1248) a b. 



P. convex, then infundibuliform, smooth, ochreous or brownish- 

 yellow, somewhat zoned ; marg. at first ragged-tomentose. St. 

 solid to hollow, equal, pitted as in 1245, yellowish. G. whitish. 

 Flesh white then pale sulphur. Milk white, then yellow-white. 



Somewhat acrid. Woods. 3§ X l§ X f in. Perhaps the same as 1248. 



1247. L. torminosus Fr. (from its painful acridity ; tormina, gripes) 



a b c. 



P. convex, then infundibuliform, becoming even, somewhat 

 zoned, pallid flesh-colour ; marg. ragged-fibrillose, white. St. 

 stuffed to hollow, equal or attenuate downwards, even or 

 obsoletely pitted, white, palest rose above, ochre or tan below. 

 G. very thin, crowded, paler than P. or tan. Milk white. 



Eaten with oil and vinegar in Russia after being preserved in salt. Very 

 acrid ; odour none. Mixed woods, on the ground, fields, amongst grass, 

 heather, etc. ; common. Aug. -Nov. 5J x if X £ in. Often confounded 

 with 1276. Hypomyces torminosus, a parasitic white mould, changing to 

 yellow and dark-brown is frequent on the gills. 



1248. L. eilieioides Fr. (from the tomentose pileus ; Gr. kilikion, 



goat's-hair cloth, eidos, appearance) a b c. 

 P. convex, then infundibuliform, wholly tomentose, flesh-colour 



to yellowish or fuscous ; marg. fibrillose-woolly. St. solid to 



hollow, equal or attenuate downwards, even, pallid. G. 



crowded, branched, white to yellowish. Flesh yellowish-white. 



Milk white to yellowish-white. 

 Woods, pine, on the ground ; frequent. Aug.-Nov. 6J X 2J X if in. 



Intermediate between 1247 and 1250. 



