LACTARIUS 481 



pubescent. St. 2-4 x 1-2 cm., flesh colour, then white, attenuated 

 downwards, often compressed, pruinato-pubescent when young. 

 Gills pallid, slightly flesh-coloured, adnate, or slightly decurrent, 

 crowded, narrower than the flesh of the pileus. Flesh white, pinkish 

 under the cuticle. Milk white, acrid. Spores white, globose, 7-8/z, 

 echinulate, 1-guttulate. Taste very acrid. Woods, heaths, and pas- 

 tures, especially under birches. Sept. Nov. Common, (v.v.) 



1570. L. aspideus Fr. (= Lactarius uvidus Fr. sec. Quel.) 



ao-Tri?, a round shield; e'So?, like. 



Entirely straw-colour, sometimes tinged with lilac. P. 5-10 cm., con- 

 vex, then slightly depressed, viscid; margin incurved, tomentose and 

 white, becoming smooth. St. 5-8 x 1 cm., equal, viscid. Gills adnate. 

 Flesh white, then lilac. Milk white, then lilac, acrid ("sweet" W. G. 

 Sm. and Massee). Spores white, subglobose, 10 x 9/i, verrucose. 

 Taste acrid. Damp meadows, and moist places. Sept. Uncommon. 



**P. viscid when moist, pelliculose, margin naked. 



1571. L. insulsus Fr. (= Lactarius zonarius (Bull.) Quel.) Cke. Illus. 

 no. 929, t. 975. Insulsus, insipid. 



P. 5-15 cm., yellowish-brick-colour, zoned, deeply umbilicate, at 

 length infundibuliform, pellicle somewhat separable, viscid. St. 

 4 x 2-5, rarely 7-8 x 1-5 cm., white, becoming pallid, often pitted- 

 spotted. Gills whitish, becoming pale and tinged with flesh colour, de- 

 current, very crowded, for ked, often crisped and anastomosing. Flesh 

 pallid, somewhat zoned under the pellicle. Milk white, acrid. Spores 

 yellow, subglobose, 10 x 8p,, echinulate. Cystidia none. Smell 

 pleasant, taste acrid. Mixed woods, and pastures. Aug. Oct. Com- 

 mon, (v.v.) 



1572. L. zonarius (Bull.) Fr. (= Lactarius insulsus Fr. sec. Quel.) 



Zonarius, zoned. 



P. 510 cm., pallid orange, or pale yellowish to deeper yellow, convex, 

 becoming plane then depressed, somewhat umbilicate, pellicle adnate, 

 viscid, beautifully zoned most frequently towards the margin, at 

 length minutely ruguloso-flocculose at first only at the circum- 

 ference margin thin, long involute, naked. St. 5-8 x 1-1-5 cm., 

 equal, or 2-5 x 1 cm. attenuated downwards, white, then yellowish, 

 pale upwards, firm, elastic. Gills whitish, at length dingy yellowish, 

 becoming dingy or even somewhat aeruginous when bruised, rounded- 

 adnate, or adnato-decurrent, arcuate, thin, narrow, somewhat 

 crowded. Flesh white, compact. Milk white, acrid. Spores whitish, 

 globose, 9 x 8/1,, echinulate. Cystidia "sparse, subulate" Rick. 

 Smell strong, taste very acrid. Woods, and grassy places. Aug. Oct. 

 Uncommon, (v.v.) 



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