116 THE AGARICACEAE OF MICHIGAN 



micr., white. MILK white or watery-white, unchanging, mild or 

 slightly acrid or bitterish in the throat. Edible. 



On the ground in low woods, fields, copses, swamps and wet 

 places or in mixed or frondose woods. Throughout the state. Jane- 

 October. Very common. 



This species occurs in dry weather when hardly any other mush- 

 room is to be found, and a swamp or bog must be very dry if it does 

 not yield some, in wet weather it is to be found on high ground 

 as well, either in the woods or the bare soil in fields or roadsides, 

 sometimes even on decayed wood. It is very variable and several 

 varieties have been named, e. g. (a) with cinnamon-red pileus; (b) 

 with chestnut- red pileus and spongy stem, and (c) with varnished- 

 shining bay-red cap and hollow stem. Ricken says the European 

 form is best known by the red-strigose base of the stem and the 

 tufted mode of growth. With us it is usually gregarious or scat- 

 tered. It must not be confused in dry weather with Clitocybc 

 laccata when the latter is moist and then similarly colored. That 

 species differs in its distant gills and fading pileus, and never pos- 

 sesses milk. 



96. Lactarius oculatus (Pk.) Burl. (Edible) 



Torr. Bot. Club, Bull. 34, 1907. 



Illustration : Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Bull. (IT, PI. 83, Fig. 20-24 

 (as L. subdulcis var. oculatus Pk.). 



PILEUS 1-2 cm. broad, convex-expanded, abruptly papillate-urn- 

 bonate, viscid when moist, glabrous, fulvous, fading to pinkish, umbo- 

 darker and scarcely fading, margin at first involute then spreading. 

 FLESH whitish, thin. GILLS subdecurrent, medium close, broad, 

 pruinose, pallid then yellowish. STEM 2-4 cm. long, 2-5 mm. thick, 

 equal, glabrous, stuffed, concolor or paler. SPORES globose to 

 broadly elliptical, echinulate, 7-9.5 micr., white. MILK white, 

 sparse, unchanging, mild. 



On the ground in moist places in woods, or on moss. Ann Arbor. 

 July-September. Infrequent. 



Related to the preceding, but often with a distinct viscidity on 

 the expallent pileus. Its definite and persistent papilla has been 

 called the -eye spot" of the cap, since its darker color, especially 

 after the rest of the pileus is faded, makes it appear prominent. 



