32 FUNGUS-FLOEA. 



with a golden sheen, zoneless, becoming pale. Gills adnato- 

 decurrent, 1-2 lines broad, thin, crowded, yellowish-white. 

 Large and very robust, and in this respect approaching 

 Bussula. Yery delicious, also pleasant when raw, celebrated 

 as an edible fungus from ancient times. (Fries.) 



Pileus 4 in. broad, flesh thickish, moderately firm, obtuse, 

 minutely umbonate, though the umbo at length vanishes, 

 subdepressed, sometimes very faintly zoned, with a few 

 minute wrinkles towards the margin, dry at length cracked, 

 of a rich orange brown darker in the centre, the whole rather 

 dull than shining, margin not the least involute, though 

 when young the edge of the pileus is regularly incurved. 

 Milk white, abundant, not acrid, quite mild. Gills pale 

 ochraceous, becoming fuscous on being touched, not very 

 close, scarcely decurrent, even in depressed specimens, some- 

 times slightly forked. Spores white, round. Stem 2J-3J 

 in. high, above 1 in. thick, obese, minutely attenuated 

 downwards, sculptured longitudinally, paler than the centre 

 of the pileus ; it bears a strong compression without giving 

 way, but it is spongy in the centre, outer flesh reddish. 

 (Berk.) 



Lacterius (Russ.) ichoratus. Batsch. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, flesh thin ; rigid then soft, obtuse, 

 plane or depressed, often unequal, excentric, sometimes 

 wavy, even (not pruinose), very dry, opaque, tawny-brick- 

 red, disc often brown, zoned with brick-red. Flesh pallid ; 

 gills adnate, with a decurrent tooth, scarcely crowded, white 

 then ochraceous, never spotted; stem lJ-3 in. long, 3-5 

 lines thick, even, glabrous, at first tawny then rufescent, 

 solid, equal or fusiform; spores 8-10 x 6-7 jx; milk white, 

 sweet, unchangeable. 



Lactarius ichoratus, Batsch, fig. 60 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 316 ; 

 Cke., Illustr., pi. 1000. 



In woods. 



Allied to L. volemus, but more slender ; very close to L. 

 tithymalinus (not British), very compact when young, then 

 softer, with an evident smell. (Fries.) 



Lactarius (Russ.) serifluus. Fr. 

 Pileus 1-2 in. across, rather fleshy, plane then depressed, 

 often waved, dry, glabrous, tawny-brown, margin incurved ; 



