212 AGARICINI. 



Pileus 1-3 in. broad, bufF, sometimes slightly tinged with tawny, at first 

 hemispherical, dimpled, at length depressed, more or less zoned; margin 

 wavy, involute, and minutely downy when young ; flesh firm, crisp ; gills 

 very slightly decurrent, connected by veins, distant, by no means rigid, 

 salmon-coloured, slightly forked, about as broad as the flesh of the pileus ; 

 milk white, rather acrid, with a peculiar tastC; changing instantly on expo- 

 sure to a delicate but beautiful yellow ; sternly in. high, ^-1 in. thick, at first 

 nearly white obese, paler than the pileus, downy at the base, more or less 

 hollow -JI. J. B. 



698. Lactarius piperatus. Fr. " Peppery Lactarius." 



White. Pileus compact, umbilicate, then infundibnliform, 

 rather regular, not zoned, even, smooth ; stem solid, thick, very- 

 short, white ; gills decurrent, arcuate, crowded, narrow, dichoto- 

 mous, white ; milk copious, acrid, white. — Fr. Epic7\ p. 340. Fl. 

 Dan. t. 1132. Krombh. t. 56,/. 1-4. Bull. t. 200. Paul. t.GS,f. 

 3-4. Smith. P.M. f. 15. Eng. Fl. v. p. 30. Barla. t. 22,/. 1-5. 

 Berk. exs. no. 61. 



In woods. July — Sept. Common. Poisonous. [United States.] 



Pileus 3-7 in. broad, slightly rugulose, quite smooth, white, a little clouded 

 with yellow or stained with umber where scratched or bruised, convex, more 

 or less depressed, often quite infundibnliform , more or less waved, fleshy, 

 thick, firm but brittle ; margin involute at first, sometimes excentric ; milk 

 white, hot ; gills generally veiy narrow, i^in. broad, but sometimes much 

 broader, cream-coloured, repeatedly dichotomous, very close "like the teeth 

 of an ivory comb," decurrent from the shape of the pileus, when bruised 

 changing to umber ; stem 1-3 in. high, 1^-2 in. thick, often compressed, 

 minutely pruinose, solid but spongy within, the substance breaking up into 

 transverse cavities. — M. J. B. Spores not echinulate, generally with an api- 

 culus, -0002 X -00024 in. 



599. Lactarius vellereus. Fr. '^ Woolly-white Lactarius." 



White. Pileus compact, umbilicate or convex, tomentose, 

 zoneless ; margin refiexed ; stem solid, blunt, pubescent; gills 

 distant, arcuate, whitish ; milk scanty, acrid, white. — Fr. Epicr. 

 _p. 340. Kromhh. t. bl , f. 10-13. Sow. t. 204.. Bull. t. 538,/ 

 G.H.N. Schreff. t. 225. Eng. Fl. v. p. 31. Barla. t. 22, f. 6-8. 

 Berk. exs. no. 122. 



In woods. Common. [Cincinnati, United States.] 



Pileus 4-7 in. broad, more or less infundibnliform, the whole surface mi- 

 nutely but densely tomentose, white, firm, fleshy ; margin at first involute ; 

 milk white, acrid ; gills white, narrow (occasionally broad and brittle), dis- 

 tant forked, connected by veins, at length slightly bufi" or yellowish, rufes- 

 cent after being bruised; stem 1 in. high, 2 in. thick, blunt, rather less 

 downy than the pileus, solid. — M. J.B. Spores hardly echinulate, '00019 X 

 •00034 in. 



var. exsuccus Otto, is a very different looking plant from L. 

 vellereus, Fr. ; it is destitute of milk, and is like a Tricholoma or 



