20 FUNGUS-FLORA. 



sweet scented, acrid milk. Pilaus 3-5 in. across, flesli thick 

 convex then exjianded and depressed, viscid, glabrous, dingy 

 orange-red, zoned, margin incurved ; gills decurrent, narrow, 

 saffron-colour becoming pale ; stem 1-3 in. long, up to 1 in. 

 thick, often narrowed at the base, expanding into the flesh 

 of the pileus, smooth, usually paler than the pileus, stuffed 

 then hollow; spores echinulate, 9-10 X 7-8 /x. 



Lactarms deliciosus, Fries, Ej)icr.j p. 341 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 

 311 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 982. 



Under firs, &c. 



Edible. According to Fries the pileus is sometimes grey 

 and not zoned. In Comm. Crypt. Ital., iii. p. 174, a violet 

 variety is mentioned. 



Gregarious, sometimes subcaespitose. Pileus 4 in. or 

 more broad, zoned, orange-rufous, dull as if it were the 

 remains of a minute very closely pressed dirty white web, 

 hemispherical when young, in which state the margin is 

 decidedly involute and tomentose, at length expanded, de- 

 pressed, fleshy. The whole plant abounding with orange 

 milk and when bruised or old stained with green. Gills 

 decurrent, from the first of the same colour as the pileus, 

 forked at the base, rather broad and distant. Spores white, 

 round. Stem 3 in. high, curved, stuffed, more or less 

 hollow, scrobiculate, strigose at the base. Odour and taste 

 agreeable, like that of Cantharellus cibarius, but slightly 

 acrid. From the account given by M. Roques, it should 

 seem that this Agaric, however delicious, is not always to be 

 eaten with impunity. I have always found the milk acrid. 

 (Berk.) 



III. PUSSULAPJA. 



* Viscidi. 



Lactarius (Russ.) pallidus. Fr. 

 Pileus 3-5 in. across, flesh thick, rather soft, pallid; 

 convex then expanded, umbilicate, viscid, glabrous, margin 

 broadly involute, pale ochraceous-tan, not zoned ; gills 

 slightly decurrent, crowded, about IJ line broad, rather 

 paler than the pileus, pruin':sc; stem li-2 in. long, up to 



