CLASSIFICATION OF AGARK 



involute, pruinose, then spreading. FLESH whitish to pinkish, 

 becoming red when broken especially next to the uilK GILLS 

 adnate-subdecurrent, close to subdistant, broadesl in middle, 

 medium broad, dark-red, fading and greenish with ugv. STEM .; 7 

 cm. long, 6-15 mm. thick, equal or tapering upwards, glabrous, 

 sometimes pruinose, stuffed then hollow, dark fed, spotted m 

 deeply, floccose-hairy ;ii base. SPORES "broadly elliptical 

 echinulate, 8-10x7-8 micr., yellowish." (Burl.) MILE dark red, 

 mild. Edible. 



Gregarious. Low moist woods of hemlock or mixed with hemlock. 

 Bay View, Huron Mountains. August-September. Infrequent 



Easily distinguished by its dark red milk which stains the flesh 

 of the broken planl ; hum- the stains assume ;i greenish Inn-. Dried 

 specimens do not show this character well, since they become 



much paler. 



77. Lactarius deliciosus Fr. (Edibli 

 Syst. Myc, 1821. 



Illustrations: Fries. Sverig. Svamp., PI. 6. 

 Gillet, Champignons de France, No. 3S"J. 

 Cooke. 111.. PI. 982. 



I'.resadola, Fungh. manger, e. vol., PI. 64. 

 Peck. \. V. State Mus. Rep. 48, PI. i".t. 1896. 



Atkinson. Muslin. s. PI. 35, Pig. 1. 1900. 



Gibson. Edible Toadstools, PI. 18, p. L69, 1903. 

 Michael. Fuhrer f. Pilzfreunde, Vol. I. No. :'.T. 

 Swanton, Fungi, PI. 15, Fig. 6-7. 

 Plate XI of this Report. 



PILEUS 5-10 cm. broad, convex-umbilicate, then expanded-de 

 pressed to subinfundibuliform, viscid when moist, glabrous, ••■ 

 or grayish-orange, fading to grayish in age, zoned, /.ones or sp< 

 brighter-colored, involute at first then arched-spreading. FLESH 

 white soon stained orange when broken, then greenish, especially 

 at junction of uills and pileus. <iIU,s adnate-decurrent, clo 

 rather narrow, inlcrvenosr and more or lew forked, bright ora 



with yellowish sin in, becoming greenish in age or where bruised. 

 STEM :: 8 cm. long, 8 15 mm. thick, equal, even, stuffed then l 

 pruinose, glabrescent, orange-yellow, orange-spotted or ■>' 

 greenish-variegated. SPORES subglobose, echinulate, v 10x7-8 

 yellowish. MII.K orangi or saffron-yellow } mild. 



