LACTARIUS 479 



I. St. central. Gills unchangeable, naked, not changing colour and 



not pruinose. Milk at the first white, (commonly) acrid. 

 *P. viscid when moist, margin at first involute, tomentose. 



1563. L. scrobiculatus (Scop.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 922, t. 971. 



Scrobiculatus, pitted. 



P. 10-30 cm., yellow, becoming pale, zoned, or zoneless, convex, um- 

 bilicate, at length infundibuliform, very viscid when moist, covered 

 with agglutinated down; margin bearded when young. St. 4r-8 x 

 2-5-5 cm., light yellow, pitted with darker yellow broad roundish spots, 

 incrassated upwards, somewhat viscid, base pubescent. Gills whitish, 

 or flesh colour, decurrent, crowded, thin. Flesh whitish, becoming 

 yellow when broken. Milk white, soon sulphur-yellow when exposed to 

 the air. Spores light yellow, subglobose, 9 x 7-8 /A, echinulate, 1- 

 guttulate. Taste very acrid. Under birches, and in coniferous woods- 

 Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1564. L. torminosus (Schaeff.) Fr. Cke. lUus. no. 923, t. 972. 



Torminosus, griping. 



P. 4-12 cm., pallid flesh colour, or strawberry colour, sometimes pale 

 ochraceous, or white, convex, then depressed, at length infundibuli- 

 form, viscid when moist, zoned; margin white fibrillosely bearded. St. 

 6-9 x 1-5-2-5 cm., pale flesh colour, equal or attenuated downwards, 

 sometimes pitted, delicately tomentose, then smooth. Gills paler than 

 the pileus, adnato-decurrent, thin. Flesh pallid. Milk white, acrid. 

 Spores white, subglobose, 8-9 x 7/z, echinulate, 1-guttulate. Cystidia 

 "sparse, subulate, 50-60 x Sfi" Rick. Mixed woods, and heaths. 

 Aug. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



1565. L. cilicioides Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 924, t. 973. 



KtXiKiov, goat's-hair cloth; etSo?, like. 



P. 5-15 cm., flesh colour inclining to fuscous, convex, then flattened 

 and depressed in the centre, viscid, tomentose, margin white flbrillosely 

 woolly. St. 5-7-5 x 2-5 cm., pale flesh colour, becoming yellowish, 

 equal, pruinato-silky under a lens. Gills white, becoming yellowish, 

 decurrent, crowded, branched. Flesh white, then yellow. Milk white, 

 or light yellow, acrid. Spores elliptical, 8-10 x 6-7 /A, minutely echinu- 

 late. Cystidia "subulate-lanceolate, 30-40 x 7-9 /A" Rick. Pine 

 woods. Aug. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. intermedius (Krombh.) B. & Br. Krombh. t. 58, figs. 11-13. 



Intermedius, intermediate. 



P. 10-14 cm., ochraceous yellow, infundibuliform, viscid, margin 

 tomentose. St. 3-5 x 2 cm., yellowish, becoming tinged with rufous, 

 covered with spot-like depressions. Gills lurid whitish, subdecurrent, 

 broad. Flesh white, then yellowish. Milk white, then yellowish, acrid. 



