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shining when dry, not zoned, tawny-rufons ; flesh whitish ; 

 gills adnato-deciirrent, about 1 line broad, thin, crowded, 

 pale then rufescent ; stem stuffed then hollow, equal, 1-2 in. 

 long, 2—4: lines thick, even, colour of the pileus ; spores 

 echinulate, subglobose, 7-8 ix diameter; milk white then 

 sulphur-colour, at length rather acrid. 



Agaricus thejogalus, Bulliard, t. 567, fig. 2. 



Ladarius thejogalus, Cke., Hdbk., p. 313. 



In pine and other woods. 



Inodorous. Fries mentions a form growing in pine woods 

 laving the pileus dry and zoneless, and the gills deep yellow. 

 Agrees with L. chrysorrlieus and L. capsicum in the yellow 

 milk, but differs from botli in the tawny-rufous stem. 



Pileus 1-3 in. broad, buff, sometimes slightly tinged with 

 tawny, at first hemispherical, dimpled, at length depressed 

 more or less zoned; margin wavy, involute and minutely 

 downy when young ; flesh firm, crisp. Gills very slightly 

 decurrent, connected by veins, distant, by no means rigid, 

 salmon-coloured, slightly forked, about as broad as the flesh 

 of the pileus. Milk white, rather acrid, with a peculiar taste, 

 changing instantly on exposure to air to a delicate but 

 beautiful yellow, as does the whole plant when cut. Stem 

 1| in. high, -^-1 in. thick, at first nearly white, obese, paler 

 than the pileus, downy at the base, more or less hollow. 

 (Berk.) 



Lactarius (Russ.) cremor. Fr. 



Pileus rather fleshy, l-i-2J in. across, glabrous, viscid, 

 opaque, tawny, not zoned, remarkable for having the surface 

 minutely punctulate, convex then plane, somewhat obtuse, 

 often unequal and excentric; margin almost membranaceous, 

 at first inflexed, then striate, resembling a Hiissula ; flesh 

 thin, coloured like the pileus or paler ; gills adnate, rather 

 distant, 3 lines broad, fragile, pruinose, white then flesh- 

 colour ; stem about 1 J in. long, 3-4 lines thick, equal, even, 

 obsoletely silky above under a lens, coloured like the pileus, 

 or darker ; milk whitish, almost mild, often watery ; spores 

 globose, echinulate, 9-10 fx, 



Lactarius cremor, Pries, Epicr., p. 343; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 313. 



In- woods, especially beech. 



