AGARicmi, 207 



A. Piperites — milk at first white, acrid. 



Sect. 1. Torminosi. 



582. Lactarius torzninosus. Fr. "Woolly Lactarius." 



Pileiis fleshy, depressed, subzonate, pallid ; stem stuffed, soon 

 hollow, equal (rarely spotted), pallid ; margin involute, bearded ; 

 gills thin, whitish, milk persistently white, acrid. — Fr.Epicr.'p. 

 334. SchcRff. t. 12. Fl. Dan. t. 1068. Fr. Funrj. Esc. t. 38. 

 ZrowiSA.f. 13, /: 15-23. BulLt.b29,f. 2. Smith. PJl.f.ll. Sow. 

 t.'iOS. Eng.Fl.\.p.2L Barla.t. 18, f. 7-10. Vent. t. 80,/. 2. 



In woods, fields, &c. June — Oct. Local. [S. Carolina.] 



Pilens 2-5 in. broad, smooth, or nearly so, except the involute margin, 

 which is most copiously shaggy, depressed, more or less zoned, of a beauti- 

 ful ochre or strawberry colour, at first viscid, milk white, very acrid, not 

 changeable ; gills rather narrow, nearly of the same colour as the pileus, but 

 yellower and paler, slightly forked ; stem l|-2 in. long, | in. thick, some- 

 t'mes shining, obtuse, paler than the pileus. at length hollow, clothed with 

 minute adpressed down. Very acrid. — M.J.B. Spores echinulate, •00035 

 X -00025 in. 



583. Lactarius cilicioides. Fr. " Ton) entose Lactarius." 



Pileus fleshy, soft, depressed, tomentose, not zoned, turning 

 pallid ; margin fibrillose or woolly ; stem stuffed, even, pruinose, 

 silky, spotless, pallid ; gil]s crowded, branched, white, then yel- 

 bwish, as well as the milk. — Fr. Epicr. p. 334. Schoeff. t. 228. 

 {Kromhh. t. 40,/. 17-19 ?) Eng. Fl. v. p. 24. 



In pine woods. Eare. 



Pileus 2-4 in. broad, depressed, margin rounded, involute, reddish-buff, 

 sometimes glutinous, very downy, becoming fibrillose at the margin ; gills 

 yellowish, irregular and often branching, apparently decurrent from the ex- 

 pansion of the stripes into the substance of the pileus. Flesh yellowish 

 white, darker towards the surface. Stem about 2 in. high, nearly 1 in. thick, 

 dingy Avhite, yellow or brown. There is no juice, but a considerable moisture 

 on the surface of the pileus, which seems to originate from the plant. — Grev. 



584. Lactarius turpis. Fr. " Dirty Lactarius. " 



Pileus compact, plane, olivaceous-umber, zoneless ; margin at 

 first yello^vish-downy ; stem stuffed, short, viscid, attenuated 

 downwards, olivaceous; gills thin, pallid ; milk white, acrid. — 

 Fr. Epicr. p. 8^0. Fl. Dan. 1. 1913. Krombh.t.e9,f.l-6. Ann. 

 N. H. no. 703. 



In fir woods. Coed Coch. East Bergholt. [Mid. Carolina.] 



