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stem stuffed or hollow, even, colored like the pileus ; spores yellowish, 
enclining to pale flesh- color, ‘subglobose, .0003 to .00035 in.; milk white, 
changing to sulphur- yellow, taste tardily acrid, bitterish. 
Pileus 2 to 5 in. broad, stem 1 to 3 in. long, 4 to 10 lines thick. 
Woods and groves. Common. July to October. 
Our plant does not fully accord with the description of the species as 
given by Fries. The pileus is moderately thick and compact, varying 
from convex or nearly plane and umbilicate to depressed or infundibuli- 
form, slightly viscid when moist, zoneless or obscurely zonate, varying 
in color from pale grayish-red to tawny-red or brick-red, there being a 
mixture of gray yellow and red not easily defined. Gillet describes the 
pileus as “ tawny-red, clear brick-red, bistre-red or orange-yellow di- 
versely shaded.” It somewhat resembles L. torminosus in color, but 
the glabrous margin and changeable milk distinguish it. The surface 
of the pileus has a minutely uneven or unpolished appearance, but it is 
smooth to the touch. The lamellz are sometimes forked near the stem, 
whitish tinged with creamy-yellow or flesh color, and they often become 
stained with reddish-brown when old or bruised. The stem is generally 
paler than the pileus. It is commonly hollow, though sometimes stuffed 
or spongy within. Rarely it is spotted or stained with reddish-brown. 
When the-flesh is cut or broken it soon assumes the pale-yellow color 
of the exposed milk. ‘The taste is tardily or moderately acrid, or some- 
what woody and bitterish. Its less acrid taste, unspotted and more 
reddish pileus, distinguish it from the preceding species. According to 
Gillet it is pronounced edible by some authors, poisonous by others. 
Cordier says that the pileus is dry, that the stem is almost always stuffed, 
and that it passes for poisonous, but that Letellier has eaten it more 
than once without inconvenience. 
Lactarius resimus, /7. 
Recurved Lactarius. 
Pileus convex and umbilicate, then infundibuliform, even, glabrous, 
viscid, zoneless, whitish or pallid, the margin at first involute, white- 
tomentose, at length spreading, naked ; lamellz decurrent, whitish ; stem 
even or obsoletely spotted, villose, hollow, thick; milk gwickly ae 
mg to sulphur-yeilow, taste acrid 
Var. regalis. (L. regalis, Peck.) Pileus yellowish-white, the margin 
glabrous ; stem glabrous ; spores globose,..0003 in. 
Pileus 4 to 6 in. broad, stem 2 to 3 in long, 8 to 12 lines thick. 
Woods. Croghan. September. Rare. 
Our plant, which has been observed but once, has the margin of the 
pileus and the stem glabrous, but it can scarcely be more than a vanety 
of the species, and as such we have subjoined it. 
Lactarius scrobiculatus, /’. 
Spotted-stemmed Lactarius. 
Agaricus scrobiculatus, Scop. Ayaricus theiogalus, A. & S. 
Pileus convex, then nearly plane or centrally depressed, viscid when 
moist, zoneless or slightly zonate, reddish-yellow or subochraceous, the 
margin at first involute, then spreading, tomentose hairy ; lamella thin, 
