272 AGARIC ACE^E Lactarius 



whitish or pale brownish. G. adnate, narrow, yellowish or 

 shaded faint olive or tan. Milk white. 



Taste mild to sweet. Woods, beech, moist mossy places. Oct. 

 3f X 3i X \ in. 



1265. L. capsicum Schulz. ex Fr. (from the peppery taste ; capsicum, 



red-pepper) a. 



P. convex, obtuse, pulvinate, dark chestnut or deep sienna ; mid. 

 paler. St. solid, equal, whitish with tawny or rufescent fibres, 

 paler above. G. subcrowded, tawny, somewhat orange or 

 ochreous-sienna. Flesh yellowish, becoming pale sienna when 

 broken. Milk white. 



Woods, under birches, grassy places. Sept. 2\ X if x § in. 



1265a. L. glaueescens Crossl. (glaticesce7is, becoming sea-green) 

 a b c. 

 P. fleshy, rigid, convex, umbilicato-depressed, smooth, glabrous, 

 dry, zoneless, white then cream-colour, slightly spotted 

 ochreous-white ; marg. involute. St. solid, attenuate down- 

 wards, smooth, compact, colour as P. G. adfixed, densely 

 crowded, somewhat forked, narrow, colour as P. Milk copious, 

 white, then pale glaucous-green. 

 Taste acrid. Woods. Aug.-Sept. 2J x if X f in. 



1266. L. ehrysorrheus Fr. (from the gold-coloured milk ; Gr. chrusos, 



gold, rheo, to flow) a b c. 



P. umbilicate then infundibuliform, pale yellow-pink, brownish- 

 salmon, apricot or whitish, zoned reddish-brown. St. stuffed 

 to hollow, equal, even, white or shaded yellowish-salmon. G. 

 very thin, crowded, slightly furcate, pallid-yellowish, salmon or 

 tan-straw colour. Flesh white, bright sulphur when broken. 

 Milk white. 



Very acrid. Woods, beech, mixed ; frequent. Aug. -Oct. 2f x 2\ x f in. 



1267. L. aeris Fr. (from the acrid taste) a b. 



P. convex, plane, sometimes subumbonate, at length depressed, 

 scarcely zoned, umber or deep umber. St. stuffed to hollow, 

 slightly attenuate downwards, tan, shaded umber. G. adnato- 

 rounded to subdecurrent, thin, pallid to yellow flesh-colour or 

 pale ochre, sparingly-spotted sienna-pink. Milk white, then 

 reddish. 



Odour strong, stinking. Woods ; rare. Aug. -Nov. 4 X 2 x \ in. Often 

 grows in company with 1289. 



1267a. L. violaseens Fr. (from the change of colour in the flesh and 

 milk to pale violet) a c. 

 P. fleshy, depressed, glabrous, ashy ; z. smoky. St. solid, some- 

 times becoming hollow, equal, ashy- or greyish-white. G. 

 somewhat crowded, white. Milk white, then violaceous or 

 pale lavender. Flesh changing as milk. 

 Poisonous. Taste sweet. Woods ; rare. Autumn. 3§ X 2§ X f in. 



