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expanded, smooth, umbonate, very glutinous, becoming paler in 

 colour and less viscid w^ith age ; gills adnate, ventricose, rather 

 thick, broad, somewhat distant, generally green ; stalk hollow, equal, 

 a little tough, wholly greenish or green at apex. 



H. psittacimts, sometimes termed the " paroquet mushroom," is 

 frequent in pastures and on downs in the autumn. It is easily 

 recognised by its peculiar though variable colours. 



GENUS VIII.—LACTARIUS Fr. 



The members of the genus Lactarius are easily recognised by 

 every part of the fungus exuding white or coloured milk on being 

 bruised or broken. Nearly all the species 

 are terrestrial. The pileus is firm and 

 fleshy, at length depressed, often zoned; 

 gills membranaceous-waxy, slightly rigid, 

 adnato-decurrent, often branched. A few 

 of the species are esculent ; the majority 

 are acrid and poisonous, some extremely 

 so. There are fifty-seven British species 

 of Lactarius, nine of which are represented 

 by models. 



96. Lactarius torminosus Fr. — Pileus 

 pallid flesh-colour, varying ochraceous and 

 white, somewhat zoned, with a shaggy- 

 fibrillose, huffish or whitish, at first involute ^^^•(^^--.^^^^^'l^^^j'r^^fife")^ ^'■• 

 margin, somewhat fleshy and fragile, de- 

 pressed, viscid when moist ; flesh pallid ; gills very thin, crowded, 

 paler than pileus ; milk copious, white, unchangeable ; stalk stuffed, 

 then hollow, delicately downy, then smooth, drj'. 



Very common in woods. The whole plant is highly acrid and 

 poisonous, but inodorous. 



Hypomyces torminosus Tul., a parasitic white mould, changing 

 to yellow and dark-brown, is frequent on the gills of L. torminosus. 



97. Lactarius blennius Fr. — Pileus pallid olivaceous or grey, 

 fleshy, piano-depressed, glutinous, often concentrically spotted or 

 irregularly zoned, margin incurved and downy in the young plant; 

 flesh rigid, white ; gills adnato-decurrent, thin, crowded, white, 

 becoming cinereous when bruised ; milk white, unchangeable ; stalk 

 thick, stuffed, then hollow, almost equal, even, viscid, pallid-grey. 



L. blennius is common in woods from autumn to early winter. 

 Acrid, poisonous. 



98. Lactarius pjrrogalus Fr. — Pileus cinereous-grey or grey- 

 yellowish, firm, convex, then plane, at length depressed, smooth, 

 moist in wet weather but not viscid, dry in dry weather, somewhat 

 zoned ; flesh white ; gills adnato-decurrent, thin, somewhat distant, 



