THE WHITE-SPORUD AGARICS 



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Lactarius regqlis. Pk. 



Regalis means regal ; so named from its large size. The pileus is four to six 

 inches broad, convex, deeply depressed in the center; viscid when moist; often 

 corrugated on the margin ; white, tinged with yellow. 



The gills are close, decurrent, whitish, some of them forked at the base. 



The stem is two to three inches long and one inch thick, short, equal, hollow. 

 The taste is acrid and the milk sparse, white, quickly changing to sulphur-yellow. 

 The spores are .0003 of an inch in diameter. Peck. 



Photo by C. G. Lloyd. 

 Figure 133. I.actarius scrobiculatus. Natural size. Caps reddish-yellow, zoned. Margin very 



. much incurved, stem pitted. 



