8 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



broadly iimbilicate, when adult, somewliat infundibuliform , 

 oblique, emerging from the ground, dry, flocculose, whitish, 

 then after rain glabrous, viscid, reddish, and wdth red zones 

 and spots, especially near the margin ; margin acute when 

 young, strongly involute, more or less downy ; flesh very 

 firm, milk white, acrid, not changing colour ; gills decurrent, 

 thin, closely crowded, 1-2 lines broad, short ones numerous, 

 rarely branched, white with a pallid flesh-coloured tinge ; 

 stem solid, stout, 1 in. thick and long, sometimes quite 2 in. 

 long, and evidently attenuated from the base, often excentric, 

 even, but mealy at the apex ; and from the decurrent teeth 

 of the gills, appearing striate, entirely white, never scrobi- 

 culate ; spores rough, globose, 6-8 /x diameter. 



Lactarius controversus, Pers., Syn., p. 430; Fries, Epicr., 

 p. 335 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 306 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1003. 



In woods, pastures, &c. 



Smell weak but pleasant, taste very acrid. 



Lactarius (Piper.) pubescens. Fr. 



Pileus 2-3 in. across, almost plane, centre depressed, then 

 broadly infundibuliform, zoneless, even, dry, disc almost 

 glabrous, shining, white tinged flesh-colour ; margin invo- 

 lute, fibrilloso-pubescent ; flesh firm but thin, tough, white, 

 or with a flesh-coloured tinge near the margin, unchange- 

 able ; milk white, unchangeable, not copious, very acrid ; 

 gills adnate or slightly decurrent, crowded, narrower than 

 thickness of flesh ot pileus, pallid, slightly tinted flesh-colour ; 

 stem stuffed, soft inside, short, about h in. thick at the apex, 

 attenuated downwards, and sometimes compressed, even (not 

 scrobiculate), usually minutely downy w^hen young, then 

 becoming glabrous, pale flesh-colour then w^hitish; spores 

 globose, rough, 7-8 /x. 



Lactarius pubescens, Fries, Epicr., p, 335 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 

 306; Cke., Illustr., pi. 974. 



In grassy places. 



Allied to L. controversus, but much smaller and more 

 slender ; inodorous, taste very acrid. (Fries.) 



Somewhat resembling L. iorminosus and L. cilicioides, but 

 differing from both in being altogether smaller and more 

 slender, and in the margin not being shaggy but only 

 fibrillosely downy. 



