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light yellow or ochraceous ; milk abundant, white, unchangeable ; 

 stalk stuffed, then hollow, often attenuated downwards, smooth, 

 pallid-white or dingy. 



Common in woods and pastures. Acrid, poisonous. 



99. Lactarius piperatus Fr. — Pileus white, fleshy, rigid-brittle, 

 margin at first involute, umbilicate, at length infundibuliform, smooth, 

 zoneless ; flesh white, slightly changing to brownish on being 

 broken ; gills decurrent, crowded, narrow, at first arcuate, at length 

 extended upwards, white, sometimes slightly yellow-spotted ; milk 

 abundant, white, unchangeable ; stalk solid, stout, often attenuated 

 downwards, white, obsoletely pruinose. 



A large species, common in woods. Very acrid, poisonous 

 when raw; inodorous; sometimes placed among esculents, since 

 the heat of cooking is said to dissipate the poison, as in many 

 other acrid fungi. The use of so hard and acrid a plant for food 

 is undesirable. 



100. Lactarius vellereus Fr. — Pileus white or pallid-tan, 

 depressed, zoneless, margin sloping down, slightly pubescent ; flesh 

 white, changing to dull yellowish on being broken, but becoming 

 white again ; gills arcuate, adnato-decurrent, thickish, somewhat 

 distant, rather broad, pallid, watery-white; milk white, scanty; 

 stalk solid, stout, equal, thinly downy. 



L. vellereus, common in woods, is not generally so large as the 

 last, but more rigid and with less milk. Bitter-acrid, poisonous. 



loi. Lactarius deliciosus Fr. — Pileus dull orange, dull yellowish, 

 or reddish-orange, becoming paler with age, depressed in the centre, 

 at length infundibuliform, margin naked, involute, smooth, slightly 

 viscid, usually zoned with darker lines or irregular spots ; flesh 

 soft, not compact, pallid-ochreous, in parts bright orange; gills 

 somewhat decurrent, crowded, narrow, arcuate, saftVon-yellow, 

 becoming paler, always turning green when bruised ; milk bright 

 orange, changing to green, aromatic ; stalk stuffed, then hollow, 

 becoming fragile, usually attenuated downwards, the same colour as 

 the pileus or paler, usually orange-spotted. 



L. deliciosus is locally frequent, sometimes abundant, in woods 

 of Scotch fir and larch. It often attains a large size, and may be 

 immediately known from all other fungi by its change from orange 

 to green on being bruised. Esculent ; when young and fresh one 

 of the best ; sold in Italian markets. The best method of cooking 

 it is, after cleaning, to boil in milk, slightly fry in butter, and serve 

 in hot milk. VVIien it is attacked by the reddish parasitic fungus 

 Hypomyces laterilius Tul., it should not be eaten, {See model, 

 No. 203.) 



102. Lactarius rufus Yx. — Pileus dark brown or cinnamon-rufous, 

 umbonate, then depressed, at length infundibuliform, but always 



