216 AGARICINI. 



stem stuffed, spongy, of the same colour; gills crowded, tan- 

 coloured, flesh and milk acrid, white, then saffron coloured. — 

 Fr.E2ncr.p.84:8. Krombh.t.U,/. 10-12. Bull. t. 667,/. 8. Eng. 

 Fl.Y.p.2d. Barla.t.21,f.6,7. 



In woods. Aug. — Nov. Common. [Low. Carolina.] 



Pileus 1-3 in. broad, not viscid, minutely pitted, plane, slightly depressed, 

 of a dull grey buflf, or umber, with a minute bloom ; not zoned ; margin not 

 the least involute ; flesh when cut soon changing to salmon colour ; milk 

 white, not changeable ; gills slightly forked at the base, not connected by 

 veins, ochraceous, sub-decurrent, mealy with the yellow spores, which are 

 round and echinulate ; stem 1^-3 in. long, 4-5 lines thick, solid, but the inner 

 substance less dense, obese, much paler than the pileus, with a minute bloom. 

 The colour of the pileus is exactly that of coffee and milk. — M. J. B. Spores 

 yellow, echinulate, almost globular, diameter '00028 in. 



Sect. 4. Pileus smooth, polished. 



609. Lactarius volemuin. Fr. " Orange-brown Lactarius." 



Pileus compact, rigid, plane, then depressed, obtuse, dry, golden 

 tawny, at length rimoso-rivulose ; stem solid, hard, blunt, pruinose ; 

 gills crowded, white, then yellowish ; milk copious, sweet, white. 

 — Fr. Epicr. 2^84:4:. Letell.t. 624. Lenz.t.o,/. 12. Huss. 1. 1. 87 . 

 Eng.Fl.Y.p.27. Kro77ibh.t.30,f.l-4. Barla.t.20,f. 1-3. Smith. 

 E.M.f.26. 



In woods. King's Cliffe. Esculent. [S. Carolina.] 



Pileus 4 in. broad, flesh thickish, moderately firm, obtuse, minutely um- 

 bonate, 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 th? least involute, though when young the edge 

 of the pileus is regularly incurved ; milk white, abundant, quite mild ; gills 

 pale ochraceous, becoming fuscous on being touched, not very close, scarcely 

 decurrent, even in depressed specimens, sometimes slightly forked ; stem 1\- 

 3J in. high, above 1 in. thick, obese, minutely attenuated downwards, sculp- 

 tured longitudinally, paler than the centre of the pileus, spongy in the centre, 

 outer flesh reddish. — M. J. B. 



610. Iiactaarius znitissinius. Fr. "Mild Lactarius." 



Pileus fleshy, thin, convex, then depressed, papillate, dry, zone- 

 less, even, orange ; stem stuffed, then hollow, smooth, of the same 

 colour ; gills crowded, paler ; milk white. — Fr. Epicr. p. 345. 

 Kromhh. t. 39,/. 19, 20. Ann.N.H. no. 799. 



In woods and hedgebanks. 



Stem 1-3 in. long, 3-| lin. thick, even, smooth. Pileus thin, rather rigid, 

 depressed, with evanescent papilljE, 1-3 in. broad, brightly coloured. Flesh 

 pallid ; gills adnato-tlecurrent, at first somewhat arcuate, then straight, 

 thin, crowded, 1-1^ lin. or more broad. 



