A CATALOGUE OF ESCULENT BRITISH FUNGI. 101 



Stem. One to two inches higli, white, with blood-red streaks, 

 thick, unequal, excentric, swollen, base attenuate, naked. 



Section. Flesh white, compact, fragile. Milk white, plentiful. 

 Stem solid. Gills pink, thin, crowded, serrulate, unequal, attenu- 

 ate, sub-decurrent. Odour slight, pleasant. Taste very acrid. 

 Spores white. 



Obs. Much eaten in France, and dried for storage. Not commendable. — 

 W. D. H. 



(101.) LACTARIUS DELICIOSUS ; The Redmilk. 



Habitat. In grassy places under firs, in hilly woods. In 

 groups. 



Season. July to November. Common. 



Pileus. Three to five inches across, salmon, zoned with orange- 

 tawny, smooth, viscid in wet; convex, then plane, depressed, ex- 

 panding. Margin at first involute and finely tomentose. 



Stem. Two to three inches high, salmon-yellow, spotted, firm, 

 thick, bent, scrobiculate, strigose below, naked. 



Section. Flesh thick. Juice abundant, orange-red, becoming 

 dull olive-green on exposure. Stem stuffed, becoming fistulose. 

 Gills salmon, stained by juice, broad, distant, forked, decurrent. 

 Odour good. Taste sharp. Spores whitish. 



Obs. In chapter vii. Truly delicious. One of the best of all fungus 

 esculents. — W. D. H. 



(102.) LACTAEIUS MITISSIMUS ; The Bright Lactar. 



Habitat. Hedge-banks, woods, wastes. Solitary. 



Season. September to November. Not uncommon. 



Pileus. One to three inches across, bright orange, smooth, 

 polished, papillate at first, dry ; convex, then depressed, even. 



Stem. One to three inches high, orange, smooth, even, firm, not 

 stout, naked. 



Section. Flesh thin, pallid, fragile. Milk white. Stem stuffed, 

 at length hollow. Gills pale orange, crowded, thin, at first arcuate, 

 then straight, narrow, adnate. Odour feeble. Taste bland. 

 Spores white. 



06s. Letellier and others pronounce it esculent. It has not any acridity. — 

 W. D. H. 



