480 LACTARIUS 



Spores elliptical, 810 x 6 8ju,, minutely echinulate, 1-guttulate. 

 Woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1566. L. lateritioroseus Karst. Lateritius, brick-red; roseus, rosy. 

 P. 6-9 cm., flesh colour, or 'brick-red with a rosy tinge, becoming pale, 



convexo-umbilicate, then depressed and somewhat infundibuliform, 

 wavy, often unequal, disc broken up into minute granule-like squamules, 

 scales larger towards the margin and eventually disappearing. St. 

 6-8 x 1-5 cm., concolorous, or paler, unequal, incrassated at the base, 

 curved, or flexuose, very slightly flocculose. Gills pinkish, becoming 

 yellowish, decurrent, rather distant, often furcate and connected by 

 veins. Milk white, acrid. Spores white, subglobose, 8-9 x 6-8ju, 

 echinulate, 1-guttulate. Woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 



1567. L. turpis (Weimn.) Fr. (= Lactarius plumbeus (Bull.) Quel. ; 

 Lactarius necator (Pers.) Schroet.) Cke. Illus. no. 925, t. 987. 



Turpis, ugly. 



P. 6-30 cm., olivaceous inclining to umber, sometimes tawny towards 

 the margin, at length entirely inclining to umber, convex, then plane, 

 disc-shaped, or umbilicate, at length depressed, sometimes somewhat 

 zoned, tomentose, viscid; margin at first villose, olivaceous light yellow, 

 at length densely rivuloso-sulcate. St. 4-8 x 1-2-5 cm., pallid, or 

 dark olivaceous, apex ochraceous whitish, equal, or attenuated down- 

 wards, often viscid and pitted. Gills white straw colour, spotted fus- 

 cous when broken or bruised, adnato-decurrent, much crowded, 

 forked. Flesh white. Milk white, acrid. Spores white, globose, 

 6-7 /A, echinulate, 1-guttulate. Cystidia "subulate, 60-75 x 6-8 /A" 

 Rick. Edible. Woods, heaths, and roadsides, especially under birches. 

 Aug. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



1568. L. controversus (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 926, t. 1003. 



Contra, over against; versus, turned. 



P. 6-30 cm., whitish, becoming reddish with blood-coloured spots and 

 zones especially towards the margin, convex, broadly umbilicate, 

 then somewhat infundibuliform, oblique, viscid in wet weather; margin 

 acute, involute, more or less villose. St. 2-6 x 2-4 cm., white becoming 

 concolorous, attenuated downwards, apex pruinose. Gills pallid-white- 

 flesh-colour, decurrent, thin, very crowded. Flesh pallid, reddish 

 under the cuticle. Milk white, acrid. Spores white, or tinged rosy, 

 subglobose, 8 x 6-7 /i, verrucose, 1-guttulate. Smell pleasant, taste 

 acrid. Woods, and pastures, especially under poplars. Aug. Nov. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1569. L. pubescens Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 927, t. 974. 



Pubescens, becoming pubescent. 



P. 4-6 cm., whitish, passing into flesh colour, rather plane, depressed 

 in the centre, then broadly infundibuliform, shining; margin flbrilloso- 



