24 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



Thin, fragile. 



Var. pauper, Karsten, Syml)., x. 58; Cke., Illustr., pi. 

 1008. 



Pileus up to 3 in. across, fleshy, soft, nearly plane, smooti, 

 zoneless, yellowish flesh-colour, ochraceous when dry, margin 

 membranaceous, at length sulcate; gills adnate, rather distant, 

 thin, soft, colour of the pileus; stem about 1 in. long, iTp to 

 f in. thick, equal, naked, smooth, paler than the pileus; 

 spores globose, echinulate, 10 /x diameter; flesh juiceless, 

 slowly becoming acrid, white. 



Under larches, &c. 



Lactarius (Russ.) vietus. Fr. 



Pileus lh-2h iu. across, plane and somewhat papillate, 

 then somewhat infundibuliform, margin rather bent down, 

 even, glabrous, at first viscid, opaque, flesh-colour or livid- 

 grej'ish, rather silky when dry, becoming pale ; flesh 

 whitish ; gills adnato-decurrent, thin, somewhat crowded, 

 rather flaccid, scarcely a line broad, whitish, yellowish with 

 age ; stem attenuated upwards or almost equal, stuffed then 

 hollow, 2-3 lines thick, even, glabrous, dry, coloured like the 

 pileus; milk white then becoming greyish, slightly acrid; 

 spores 7-8 fx. 



Lactarius vietus, Fries, Epicr., p. 344; Cke., Hdbk., p. 313.; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 1009. 



In woods. 



Small, slender, soft, fragile. Pileus sometimes flexuous, 

 always truly slender. (Fries.) 



Lactarius (Russ.) cyathula. Fr. 

 Pileus 1-2 in. across, flesh thin, convex then plane, umbo- 

 nate, then plane and depressed, umbo often disappearing, 

 viscid in moist weather, soon dry, always very opaque, even, 

 when growing rufous brick-red or flesh-colour, slightly 

 zoned, becoming pale when dr}^ then livid or pinkish-buff, 

 hoary-tan, &c., minutely cracked and rivulose ; flesh white 

 with a pink tinge; gills decurrent, very much crowded, 

 thin, scarcely 1 line broad, pinky-white, then yellowish; 

 stem about 2 in. long, 1-5 lines thick, equal, round, even, 

 glabrous, becoming pale and at length whitish, stuffed; 

 spores globose, 6-8 /x; milk white, unchangeable, acrid. 



