482 LACTARIUS 



1573. L. utilis (Weinm.) Fr. (= Lactarius pallidus (Pers.) Fr. sec. 

 Quel.) Cke. Illus. no. 930, t. 1084. Utilis, useful. 



P. 12-20 cm., tan colour, pale dull ochre, or livid, convex, then 

 plane, obtuse, at length infundibuliform, humid, often cracked at 

 maturity. St. 5-8 x 2-5 cm., concolorous or darker, fragile, longitu- 

 dinally striate. Gills pallid, adnate, crowded. Milk white, somewhat 

 acrid. Woods. Sept. Oct. Rare. 



1574. L. blennius Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 931, t. 988. 



/SXew/05, mucous matter. 



P. 4-11 cm., pallid olivaceous or aeruginous-grey, piano-depressed, 

 glutinous, often concentrically guttate, or somewhat zoned ; margin at 

 first incurved and slightly downy, then naked. St. 4-5 x 1-1-5 cm., 

 pallid olive, or pallid grey, viscid, equal, or attenuated downwards. 

 Gills white, becoming cinereous when wounded, subdecurrent. Flesh 

 white, becoming grey. Milk white, then grey, acrid. Spores white, 

 elliptical, 8 x 6-7 fi, verrucose. Cystidia "sparse, fusiform-subulate, 

 60-75 x 8-10/a" Rick. Taste slowly acrid. Woods, especially beech. 

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



var. viridis (Schrad.) Quel. Viridis, green. 



Differs from the type in its bright green slightly olivaceous pileus. 

 Beech woods. Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1575. L. lividus Lamb. Lividus, livid. 

 P. pale livid, disc fuscescent, convex, then plane or depressed, 



not distinctly zoned, viscid (?). St. livid, curved. Gills pale livid, 

 subdecurrent, crowded. Milk white, acrid. Woods. Oct. Rare. 



1576. L. fluens Boud. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. in, t. 12. Fluens, lax. 

 P. 510 cm., blackish olive, either somewhat zoned, or zoneless and 



unicolorous, but always paler ochraceous towards the margin, convex, 

 scarcely flattened with age, rough, granularly punctate on the epidermis, 

 viscid, not glutinous. St. 5-8 x 1-2 cm., greyish ochre, becoming brown 

 when bruised, somewhat viscid, unequal, attenuated at the base. Gills 

 ochraceous, then cinereous ochraceous, adnate, or subdecurrent. Flesh 

 white, brown when bruised. Milk plentiful when wounded like Lac- 

 tarius volemus, white, then brownish, at first mild, then acrid and bitter. 

 Spores white, round or oval, 7-8 x 6/u., "10-11 x 7-8/i" Boud., 

 echinulate, netted. Sometimes caespitose. Amongst grass under 

 beeches. Sept. Oct. IJncommon. (v.v.) 



1577. L. hysginus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 932, t. 989. 



vo-ywov, a vegetable dye of scarlet colour. 



P. 6-10 cm., reddish flesh colour, or reddish brown, umbilicate, be- 

 coming plane, viscid, often zoned and spotted ; margin thin, inflexed. 



