CLASSIFICATION OF A.OARII 



Rl SSI LARJA: Gills becoming darker in age, and theD pruino 



Section V. Pileus minutely scaly, tomentose, pruinoHe-velvety, 

 dry ; taste bIo^h iy or sligh i Iv acrid. 



79. Lactarius fuliginosus I'r. Su8PE( n 



Syst. Myc, L821. 



Illustrations: Cooke, III.. PL 996. 



(lilk-i. Champignons de Prance, No. 384. 

 Patonillard, Tab. Analyt., No. 322. 

 Ricken, Bliittrn.il/..'. PL L2, Fig. 5. 

 Atkinson, Mushrooms, Pig. 117. p. L19, U 



PILEUS 2-6 cm. broad, cmivcx, soon expanded-plane >>\ obti 

 sometimes depressed, dry, < r<u, minutely velvety-tomentose or glab- 

 rous, azonate, isabelline or grayish-brown, clouded with n ftmoky 

 shade, margin at length crenate-wavy. FLESB thin <»u margin, 

 whitish, becoming tinted with flesh-pink to salmon-color when 

 broken. (JILLS adnate, at length subdecurrcnt. distinct, close to 

 subdistant, moderately broad. pruinose, pallid then pale ochraceus 

 becoming -pinkish or salmon wh en bruised. ST KM i'-(; cm. long, 

 ofti n short, 3-10 nun. thick, subequal or tapering downwards, stuffed 

 then hollow, minutely pruinose-velvety or glabrous, pallid-grayish- 

 is.difllinc or sinokv-rlondcd. pinkish st,i incd where bruised. 

 storks globose, echinulate, 7-9 micr. with long sterigmata, paU 

 ochraceous-yellow. MILK white a1 first, then changing slowly to 

 ■flesh pink or salmon where in contact with the flesh, slotcly >" rid. 



Gregarious. On tin- ground in frondose woods of oak and maple. 

 Ann Arbor. August, [nfrequent. 



In Europe it is said to occur also in pine woods. L is known by 

 its smoky-clouded often "snuff-brown" pileus, and the tendency 

 the flesh to assume a flesh-pink or pale salmon color where bruised. 

 Dry weather plants often respond slowly to bruising. The margin 

 of the pileus in age is ap1 to be wavy or scalloped. /.. gerardii Pk. 

 is considered by Atkinson as probably a variety. 



