186 EEPOET OF THE STATE BOTANIST 



swamps when dry weather prevents its growth elsewhere. It 

 appears from July to October. 



The following are some of the many quotations that might be 

 made concerning the edible qualities of this mushroom. It is 

 one of the best mushrooms with which I am acquainttd and 

 fully deserves its name and the high estimation in which it is 

 held. Its flesh is firm, juicy, sapid and nutritious. Badham. It 

 is the most delicate and the safest mushroom known. Vittadini. 

 It is a species highly esteemed and generally liked. It is veiy 

 good when properly cooked. It is also good preserved in 

 vinegar. liichon and Roze. It is certainly very good when 

 cooked with care. Quelet. It is most excellent. Berkeley. Fritd 

 with butter and salt it has a taste like lamb. Sti/?ics. It is edible 

 but it is not as good as its name seems to indicate. Gillet. 

 Served at the annual Woolhope dinners, it has alwaj's given 

 satisfaction. Cooke. It is the most delicious mushroom known. 

 Smith. My own experience with it leads me to consider it very 

 good but scarcely equal to the best. Doubtless differences of 

 opinion concerning it may be due in part to different methods of 

 cooking. It is said to require delicate cooking, for too long or 

 too rapid cooking will make it tough. One of the best methods 

 is to bake gently three-fourths of an hour in a close covered dish, 

 having seasoned it with butter, pepper and salt. I consider it 

 one of our most valuable mushrooms, because of its common 

 occurrence and goodly size, and because of the almost total 'm- 

 possibility of mistaking any deleterious sjiecies for it if regard 

 be had to the color of its juice. From this it is sometimes caUed 

 the Orange milk mushroom. 



Lactarius volemus Pr. 

 Okanoe-iseown Laotakios. 



Plate SO. 



Pileus convex or nearly plane, sometimes becoming centrally 

 depressed or almost funnel-form, glabrous, dr}'^, golden-tawny 

 or brownish-orange, sometimes darker in the center ; lamellaj 

 crowded, adnato or subdecurrent, white or tinged with yellow; 

 stem colored like or a Utile paler than the pileus, glabrous; juice 

 white, abundant; spores globose, white, .0()ii35 to .00045 in. broad. 



The Orange-brown lactarius is a clean, firm and attractive 

 species. It varies but little in color and is, therefore, easily recog- 



