104 A CATALOGUE OF ESCULENT BRITISH FUNGI. 



(108.) LACTARIUS TURPIS ; The Dirty Lactar. 



Habitat. In woods of fir and pine. Scattered. 



Season. June to October. Common. 



Pileus. Three to seven inches across, buff or olive-brown, 

 glabi'ous, sub-viscid ; convex, depressed, rigid. Margin involute, 

 pale, tomentose, at length perhaps sulcate. 



Stem. One to three inches high, tint of pileus, pale, thick, 

 attenuate below, viscid or dry, not spotted, naked. 



Section. Flesh compact, pallid. Milk white. Stem stuffed. 

 Gills pallid, then reddish, thin, numerous, unequal, straight, adnate. 

 Odour musty. Taste very acrid. Spores white. 



Obs. Lenz and others pronoimce it esculent, though it has been stigmatised 

 deleterious. It certainly cannot be much commended. — W. D. H. 



(109.) LACTARIUS VOLEMUS ; The Kidney. 



Habitat. In woods. Singly. 



Season. June to September. Not common. 



Pileus. Thi'ee to four inches across, rich golden-tawny or orange- 

 brown, dry, not zoned, smooth, eventually rimose, sub-pulverulent ; 

 convex, then obtuse, depresso-umbonate. Margin inflexed, not 

 involute at first, wrinkled. 



Stem. Two to three inches high, tint of pileus, pale, pruinose, 

 stout, hard, unequal, perhaps grooved, naked. 



Section. Flesh thick, white, compact. Milk white, brownino- 

 on exposure. Stem solid, spongy. Gills pallid, then pale buff, 

 browning where bruised, numerous, unequal, straight, adnate and 

 almost decurrent. Odour pleasing. Taste sweet and mild. Spores 

 white. 



Obs. In chapter vii. A most delicious and truly first-class esculent. — 

 W. D. H. 



Genus LENTINUS. 



(110.) LENTINUS TIGRINUS ; The Tiger- tuft. (PI. IV. fig. 6.) 

 Habitat. On old willow, poplar, and elm trunks. In tufts. 

 Season. July to October. Uncommon. 



Fileus. Two to three inches across, yellowish, covered with 

 small, tawny, numerous, and silky scales, thickset towards centre ; 



