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120 THIRTY-EIGHTH REPORT ON THE STATE Musrum. 
y Lactarius torminosus, /’. 
Colic Lactarius. Woolly Lactarius, 
Agaricus torminosus, Scheff. A. necator, Bull. A. piperatus, L. 
A, barbatus, Retz. 
Pileus convex, then depressed, viscid when young or moist, yellowish- 
red or pale-ochraceous tinged with red or flesh color, often varied with 
zones or spots, the at first involute margin persistently tomentose-hairy ; 
lamellz thin, close, narrow, whitish, often tinged with yellow or flesh 
color ; stem equal or slightly tapering downward, hollow, sometimes 
spotted, whitish; spores subglobose or broadly elliptical, .00035 to 
.0004 In., milk white, taste acrid. . 
Pileus 2 to 4 in. broad, stem 1.5 to 3 in. long, 4 to 8 lines thick. 
Woods. Adirondack mountains and Sandlake. August. 
This species differs from all the preceding by its unchangeable milk, 
and from all the following by the coarse tomentum or hairs of the mar- 
gin of the pileus. Badham says that it is acrid and poisonous, and Gil- 
let declares it to be deleterious and even dangerous, and that im the 
raw state it is a very strong drastic purgative. Onche other hand Cor- 
dier states that almost all authors agree in saying that it is eaten with 
impunity, and that Letellier has eaten it more than once without in- 
convenience. 
Lactarius sordidus, Peck. 
Pileus thick, firm, convex and centrally depressed, then nearly plane 
or subinfundibuliform, subglabrous, slightly viscid when moist, soon dry, 
pale yellowish-brown, tinged with sordid green, often darker in the cen- 
ter ; lamelle narrow, close, white or yellowish; stem short, firm, equal 
or slightly tapering upward, hollow, colored like the pileus, generally 
spotted ; spores .0003 to -00035 in.; milk white, taste acrid. 
Pileus 2 to 4 in. broad, stem 1 to 2 in. long, 4 to 8 lines thick. 
Woods and open places, especially under spruce and balsam trees. 
Adirondack mountains and Sandlake. August and September. 
This species appears to resemble L. turpis Fr. in color, but that 
species differs, according to the description of Fries, in having the mar- 
gin of the pileus at first villose or tomentose, the stem stuffed, attenua- 
ted downward, not spotted, and the pileus covered with a tenacious 
gluten. Like it, our plant has a sordid, forbidding appearance. It 
sometimes appears to be adorned with a few obscure fibrils or to be 
slightly scabrous or hairy. 
Lactarius trivialis, fr. 
Common Lactarius. 
Pileus convex, then nearly plane, umbilicate or centrally depressed, 
glabrous, viscid, sometimes zonate, leaden-gray, livid-cinereous or pale 
brown, often with a pink or lilac tint, the thin inflexed margin at first 
with a grayish pruinosity ; lamellae rather narrow, close, thin, adnate, 
sometimes forked, whitish, becoming pallid or creamy-yellow, with 
dingy-greenish stains where wounded ; stem equal or slightly tapering 
upward, long or short, glabrous, rarely spotted, hollow, whitish, often 
tinged with yellow or gray, paler than the pileus ; spores yellowish, 
,0003 to .o004 in.; milk whitish or pale cream color, taste acrid. 
