﻿Alabama Fungi 369 



Pileus 5-7.5 cm - broad; stem 5-7.5 cm. long, 4-6 mm. thick. 



Newly cleared land ; cespitose. August. Earle. ° A very 



pretty and delicate species/' It is smaller than L. Americana 



and has larger spores. The change in color is limited to wounded 

 places.- 



Lactarius salmoneus. 



Pileus rather thin, convex, becoming nearly plane or slightly 

 depressed in the center, dry, subvelvety, sometimes irregular, 

 white, becoming reddish where bruised ; milk bright salmon color, 

 taste mild, slightly aromatic ; lamellae narrow, close, adnate or 

 oecurrent, bright salmon color ; stem short, solid, central or oc- 

 casionally eccentric, velvety, white, salmon color within ; spores 

 subglobose, 7.5-9 /i long. 



Pileus 2.5-3.8 cm. broad ; stem about 2.5 cm. long, 3-6 mm. 

 thick. 



Cespitose, in wet swampy places, usually on naked ground 

 that has been overflowed. August. Earle & Baker. 



A small but very distinct species easily recognized by the sal- 

 mon color of the milk, and the change in the color of the bruised 

 flesh. 



Lactarius subvellereus. 



Pileus fleshy, firm, broadly umbilicate or centrally depressed, 

 becoming somewhat infundibuliform, downy-tomentose, white, 

 °iten with yellowish stains or becoming yellowish or tawny- 

 yellow with age, the margin at first strongly involute, milk abun- 

 dant, pale creamy-yellow, taste very acrid ; lamellae narrow, 

 crowded, often forked, adnate or slightly decurrent, pale creamy 

 yellow, becoming tawny where wounded ; stem short, equal or 

 tapering downward, solid, white, downy ; spores subglobose, about 

 7'$f* long 



~"'eus 7.5-15 cm. broad; stem 1.8-4.8 cm. long, 1.2-2.5 cm. 



Dry ground in mixed woods. August. Earle. 



The species is similar to L. vellercus in the soft downy or 

 velvety coating of the pileus and stem, but differs from it in the 

 narrow crowded lamellae and the color of the milk. This last 

 character and the downy surface of the pileus and stem separate it 

 rom L ■ piperatus. It appears to combine the characters of these 

 hvo s Pecies. The acrid taste persists in the mouth a long time. 



Pil 

 thick. 



