THE WHITE-SPORED AGARICS 



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The gills are rather broad, distant, adnate or slightly decurrent, white or 

 creamy yellow, interspaces veined; milk white, mild. 



The stem is short, equal or tapering downward, solid, pruinose, colored like 

 the pileus. 



The spores are subglobose, 9-1 ifx broad. Peck, N. Y. Report, 52. 



I frequently mistake this plant for L. volemus when seen growing in the 

 ground, but the widely separated gills distinguish the plant as soon as it is gathered. 

 The stem is short and round, tapering downward, solid, colored like the pileus. 

 The milk is both white and mild. I find it on nearly every wooded hillside about 

 Chillicothe. It is found from July to September. 



Figure 139. Lactarius atroviridus. Cap and stem dark green. Cap depressed in 

 center. Gills white. 



Lactarius atroviridus. Pk. 



The Dark-Green Lactarius. 



Atroviridus is from ater, black ; viridyis, green ; so called from the color of 

 the cap and the stem of the plant. 



The pileus is convex, plane, then depressed in the center, with an adherent 

 pellicle, greenish with darker scales, margin involute. 



The gills are slightly decurrent, whitish, broad, distant ; milk white but not 

 copious as in many of the Lactarii. 



, J 



