CLASSIPK A.TION OP A.GARH 117 



97. Lactarius camphoratus It. Edible 



Epicrisis, L836-38. 



Illustrations : Cooke, III.. PI. L013. 

 Ricken, Blatterpilze, PI. I I. Fig. 7. 

 Plate Xlll uf this Report. 



PILEUS ll tin. broad, firm, rigid-fragile, convex, often umbonate, 

 ;ii Length depressed, nitrons to dark brownish-red, azonate, dry, 

 glabrous, often wrinkled-uneven, opaque, margin arched-decurved. 

 FLESH concolor or paler, rather thin. GILLS adnate-subdecurrent, 

 close, rather aarrow, pruinose, 'lull yellowish to reddish-brown. 

 STEM L-3 cm. Long, 3-8 mm. thick, subequal, glabrous or pruinose, 

 sometimes compressed-wrinkled, spongy-stuffed, < <nt<<>i<,r. SPORES 

 globose, echinulate, 6-7.5 micr., white. MILE white, unchanging, 

 either copious or in dry weather often watery white and scanty, 

 mild. ODOB ar<>ui<iii<-, agreeable, usually very distinct. Edible. 



<>n the ground in wet places, swamps, very rotten wood in mixed 

 or frondose woods. Throughoul the state. July-August. Common. 



Known by it* peculiar rigid-fragile consistency, its aromatic odor 

 and dark reddish-brown color. Distinguished from /.. rufus which 

 grows in similar situations, by its smaller size, odor ami oon-acrid 

 taste: from L. SUbdulcis by darker color and odor. Tin- odor i- not 

 of camphor as the name would indicate; it has been variously char 

 acterized as like thai of dried melilot, slipperj elm bark, or chicory, 

 or similar to that of /.. helvus. Like /.. subdulcis, it i> often to be 

 found when other mushrooms are absent. 



98. Lactarius rimosellus Pk. 



X. V. State Mits. Bull. L05, L906. 

 Illustration: [bid, PI. 95, Fig. 7 1 1. 



"PILEUS 3-6.5 cm. broad, rather firm, convex umbonate, then de 

 pressed, brownish t> ri <i-c<>t in , fading somewhat, azonate, dry, glab- 

 rous, rugose from the center. '// length minutely rimose-a 

 PLESB thin, isabelline then concolor. GILLS decurrent, clo 

 medium broad, few forking, whitish then somewhal o< 

 STi-:.M _' t; nn. long, 5-10 nun. thick, equal or tapering up 

 stuffed then hollow, pruinose above, tomentosi to strig* 

 wards, concolor. SPORES broadly elliptical, echinulate 7- 



