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MUSHROOMS, EDIBLE AND OTHERWISE 



Lactarius pergamenus. Fr. 



Pergamenus is from pergamena, parchment. The pileus is convex, then ex- 

 panded, plane, depressed, wavy, wrinkled, without zones, often repand, smooth, 

 white. 



The gills are adnate, very narrow, tinged with straw-color, often white, 

 branched, much crowded, horizontal. 



The stem is smooth, stuffed, discolored, not long. The milk is white and 

 acrid. Spores, 8x6. It differs from L. piperatus in its crowded, narrow gills and 

 longer stem. Found in woods from August to Octoher. 



Figure 128. Lactarius piperatus. One-third natural size. 



Lactarius deceptivus. Ph. 

 Deceiving Lactarius. Edible. 



Deceptivus means deceiving. 



The pileus is three to five inches broad, compact, at first convex, and um- 

 bilicate, then expanded and centrally depressed or subinfundibuliform, obsoletely 

 tomentose. or glabrous except on the margin, white or whitish, often varied with 

 yellowish or sordid strains, the margin at first involute and clothed with a dense, 

 soft cottony (omentum, then spreading or elevated and more or less fibrillose. 



The gills are rather broad, distant or subdistant. adnate or decurrent. some of 



