208 AGARICINI. 



Growing to a large size, and remarkable for its yellow, olive, or umber hue. 

 Stem 1^-3 in. long', -|-1 in. and more thick, viscid or dry, not spotted, pale 

 or dark olive, apex becoming ocbraceous. Pileus fleshy, rigid, olive, verging 

 on umber ; margin at first involute and villous, with a yellowish olive down, 

 then more or less expanded, at length closely sulcate. 



585. Lactazius controversus. Pers. " Stained Lactarius." 



Pileus compactj rather fragile, umbilicate, infundibuliform, 

 floccose, tlien smooth, viscid, variegated with blood-red spots; 

 margin at first involute, villous ; stem solid, blunt, unequal ; 

 gills thin, much crowded, simple, flesh-coloured ; milk white, 

 acrid. — Fr. Epicr.p. 335. Vitt. Mang. t. 27. Fr. Fung. Esc. t. 39. 

 Trans. Woolhope Club, 186S, p. 24c6, plate. Bull. t. 638. Batsch. 

 /. 201. PauLt.6S,f.l. Vent. t. 61. Barla.t.lS,/. 1,2? 



Under poplars. Abergavenny. Breinton, etc. 



Stem stout, swollen, 1-2 in. long, sometimes excentric, pruinose at the 

 top, never marked with pits or depressions ; gills decurren^^^, with an obscure 

 tooth ; pileus fleshy, compact, rigid, convex, then depressed and subinfundi- 

 buliform ; at first dry, but after rain viscid in all its parts; margin at first 

 involute and villous ; stem and pileus more or less covered with blood-red 

 spots and smears ; flesh very firm, like L. jrqieratus. Fr. Milk very acrid, 

 white, plentiful ; odour faint, but pleasant ; taste exceedingly acrid. " Feels 

 and looks soapy." Spores echinulate, -0003 X -00025 in.- W. G. >S^. 



586. Lactarius pubescens. Schrad. " Pubescent Lactarius. " 



Pileus fleshy, firm, plano-umbilicate, whitish, disc glabrous, 

 shining ; margin whitish-fibrillose (or tomentose) ; stem stuffed, 

 then hollow, very short, attenuated downwards ; gills somewhat 

 crowded, flesh-coloured; milk acrid, white. — Schrad. Spic.p. 122. 



var. margiue-tomentoso. B.^ Br. Ann. N.H. 18^6, no. 101b. 

 Kromhh. 1. 13,/. 1-12. 



In pastures. Aug. Aboyne. 



Pileus 2 in. across, depressed, clothed with fine matted down ; margin in- 

 volute, tomentose ; flesh firm ; stem nearly equal, l\ in. high, about 5 lines 

 thick, smooth, pale flesh-coloured ; gills thin, scarcely branched; milk ex- 

 tremely acridj white, not changeable ; odour pungent. — B. <k Br. 



Sect. 2. Limacini. 



587. Lactarius insulsus. Fr. "Unsavoury Lactarius." 



Pileus fleshy, umbilicate, then infundibuliform, viscid, some- 

 what zoned, yellowish, margin naked ; stem stuffed, then hol- 

 low, firm, pallid ; gills crowded, forked, pallid ; milk white, 

 acrid. — Fr. Epicr.p. 336. Krombh. t. 12,/. 1-6. Huss. i.t. 59. 

 Berk. Outl. 1. 13, f. 2. Gard. Chron. I860, p. 752. 



