CLASSIFICATION OF A.G iRU 



whal roughisli floccose, fibrils glutinous when moist, a< lengtb bud- 

 glabrous, margin a1 first involute with an olivaceus-yellow villositj 

 PLESH whitish, compact, thick. GILLS adnate, decurrent, aarrow, 

 close in crowded, dingy cream-colored, stained gray or nearly black 

 where bruised. STEM 3 i cm. long, L.5-2.5 cm. thick, Btoot, sh 

 firm, Bcarcelj viscid, glabrous, concolor or paler than pileus, o 

 s/»>n< ,i with darker spots, even, si uffed, Bometimes hollow. SPORES 

 "globose, echinulate, 6.5 8 micr." i Burl.) M l l.K white, unchanging, 

 causing gray stains on gills, acrid. ODOB Blight Edible. 



Gregarious or solitary. <>n the ground in the oorth, in mixed 

 \\ Is of hemlock, balsam, poplar, maple, etc. Presque Lsle, Mar- 

 quette. August- September. Rare or f requenl Locally. 



It is very distinct from L. atroviridis in its colors and in the char- 

 acter <>f the surface of the pileus, etc. Dried specimens are grayish 

 black. Lactarius sordidus Pk. is withoul doubl the same. It i> 

 s;iiil to lie eaten in Europe, although as Pries remarks, it has a Loath- 

 some appearance. It lias somewhat the habil of Paxillus involutus 

 ami like the latter, prefers coniferous woods. 



59. Lactarius atroviridis Pk. 

 X. Y. State Mns. Rep. 42, L889. 



Illustration : Hard, Mushrooms, Pig. L39, p. IT"-. L908 (nol typ- 

 ical I. 



PILEUS 6-15 cm. broad, subrigid, convex-expanded, soon de 

 pressed, dry, rough-scabrous to scabrous-hairy, often rugose, <l"rk 

 olivi green, becoming blackish-green, sometimes obscurely mottled- 

 zonate toward margin, which is at firsl involute then spreading and 

 thin. PLESH whitish, thick and compad on disk. GILLS adnate 

 <»r Bubdecurrent, close, distinct, rather aarrow, whitish at fii 

 stained with dark green where bruised or in age, intervenose, 

 forked. STEM short, 2-5 cm. Long, L-2.5 cm. thick. >i<>Mt. Bubrigid 

 equal, dry, glabrous, <lurk greenish, sunn hollow or cavernous. 

 SPORES "subglobose, echinulate, 7-8 micr., white.- (Burl.) Ml l.K 

 white, unchanging, causing dark green stains <>n gills, acrid. 



Gregarious. <>n the ground in frondose woods. Ann Vrbor, i 

 troit. August. Lnfrequent. 



Blackish when dried. \ very curious and repellenl mushroom 

 concerning whose edibility nothing i- known, it ig quit< 

 and easily recognized by its blackish green colors, rigid 



