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AGARICINI. 



Under Scotch firs. Aug. — Oct. 



[Low. Carolina.] 



Pileus 2-3 in. broad, top-shaped, urabonate, yellow in the centre, the 

 margin liver-coloured, shining ; gills decurrent, somewhat branched, firm, 

 elastic, thick, entire, purple-brown, the shorter connected with the longer ; 

 spores dark, fusiform. Stem 2-3 in. high, ^-| in. thick, rhubarb-coloured 

 without and within, fibrillose, attenuated below, firm, solid, slimy from the 

 remains of the veil, which form an obsolete filamentous ring. — M. J.B. Spores 

 •00063 X -00025 in. 



681. Gomphidius stillatus. Stra^iss. " Slender Gompliidius." 



Pilous conico-hemispherical, clothed with dingy gluten, at 

 length spotted with black; gills of a watery, dingy white, forked; 

 stem slender, sprinkled with minute scales above, virgate below. 

 Sir. Sturm, t.2. G. gracilis, Berk. Outl. 1. 12,/. 7. Ann. N.H. 

 no. 698. 



In fir woods. Llanberris. Lea. 



Pileus 1 in. across, conico-subhemispherical, of a pale vinous brown, when 

 dry clothed with dirty fuliginous slime, Avhich dries, especially round the 

 margin, into black spots, or forms a narrow, irregular black border. Stem 

 2, in. high, 1|^ line thick, flexuous, pale, especially above, where it is sprinkled 

 with minute white scales, virgate below, with the remains of the slime, yel- 

 low at the base ; gills arched, decurrent, forked, thick, obtuse, clothed under 

 a lens with short tomentose hairs, of a washy bistre. Spores oblong, elliptic, 

 •0009 in. long, '0003 in. wide, with a nucleus at either end. Distinguished 

 from every other species by its slender stem and delicate habit. — M.J. B. 



Gen. 9. 



LACTARIUS, Fr. Epicr. p. 333. 



Spores white or very pale yellow, 

 generally echinulate ; veil none, but 

 in some species the margin of pileus 

 is bearded or pubescent ; pileus fleshy, 

 of a floccose or vesiculose (not fibrous ) 

 texture, at length depressed in the 

 middle, margin at first involute ; stem 

 fleshy, not corticate, often hollow when 

 old, confluent with the hymenophore; 

 gills milky, in nearly all the species 

 at first white, often changing to sul- 

 phur colour, red, or violet on exposure 

 to the air, subdecurrent, unequal, with 

 an acute edge ; trama sub vesiculose. 



Hab. All grow on the ground. (Fig. t)l.) 



The species are easily recognised by the milky gills. The genus is nearly 

 allied to Rv.ssula, but easily distinguished by its milky juice. They vary greatly 

 in taste, being mild, aromatic, bitter, or acrid and burning. Laciarius there- 

 fore includes delicate and excessively poisonous species. 



Fig. 51. 



