REPORT OF THE STATE Boranist. ALG 
close, adnate or slightly decurrent, whitish or yellowish; stem equal, 
stout, hollow, colored like the pileus, adorned by swborbicular depressed 
spots of a brighter color; spores white, .coo3 to .00035 in.; milk 
white, changing to sulphur-yellow, taste acrid. 
Pileus 3 to 6 in. broad, stem 1.5 to 3 in. long, 6 to 12 lines thick. 
Wet, mossy ground in woods. Caroga. July. Rare. 
This Lactarius is similar to the preceding in size and shape, and like 
that, it sometimes has the margin naked when old, but it is distin- 
guished by its distinctly-spotted stem and more highly-colored pileus. 
Its color approaches that of L. thetogalus, but its generally hairy margin, 
together with its spotted stem and more acrid taste, will distinguish it 
from that species. It is not deemed edible. 
Lactarius cilicioides, 7’. 
Tomentose Lactarius. 
Agaricus tomentosus, Otto. Agaricus crinitus, Scheff. 
Pileus broadly convex or nearly plane, umbilicate or centrally de- 
pressed, occasionally subinfundibuliform, soft, covered with long matted 
hairs or tomentum, the center sometimes becoming naked with age, 
zoneless, viscid when moist, white reddish-buff or dingy-incarnate ; 
lamellz rather narrow, thin, close, adnate or slightly decurrent, some of 
them forked, white, or tinged with yellow or incarnate ; stem short, equal 
or tapering downward, pruinose, stuffed or hollow, not spotted, white or 
whitish ; spores white, .ooo25 to .0003 in.; milk white, sparse, slowly 
changing to pale yellow, taste acrid. 
Var. albus. Pileus at first white, flesh white, stem short, milk very 
sparse or almost none. 
Pileus 1.5 to 4 in. broad, stem .5 to 1.5 in. long, 3 to 6 lines 
thick. 
Woods and open places, especially under or near pine trees. Forest- 
burgh, Karner, West Albany and Greig. September and October. 
The tomentose Lactarius is distinguished from all our other species 
by its conspicuously woolly pileus. It is this character that gives name 
to the plant. The hairs or fibrils are long and intricately matted, and 
so viscid in wet weather that fragments of leaves, sticks and dirt are of- 
ten found adhering to them. The variety, which is found especially 
on sandy soil near pine trees, is white when young, but with age it is 
apt to become stained with a dirty-yellow or rusty-yellow hue, especially 
in the center. The milk is very sparse and sometimes wanting. The 
stem is so short that the pileus appears to rest on the ground. In the 
form which grows in woods the stem is longer, and the pileus approaches 
the next species in color. Fries describes the stem as two to three inches 
long and one inch thick, but I have seen no specimens with stems so large. 
The plant occurs in autumn, and sometimes several successive crops 
appear in the same locality in one season. It is sometimes subcespi- 
tose. 
Milk white or whitish, wnchangeable. 
* Pileus viscid when moist. 
