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St. 3-10 x 1-5-2-5 cm., ochraceous cream, or flesh colour, here and 

 there pitted or somewhat spotted with rose, apex constricted, attenuated 

 at the base, pruinose. Gills white, then light yellow-ochraceous, adnato- 

 decurrent, thin, crowded, branched. Flesh white, then yellowish, red- 

 dish under the cuticle of the p. and st. Milk white, slowly acrid. Spores 

 pale ochre, globose, 7/x, echinulate, 1-guttulate. Cystidia "subulate, 

 60-75 x 8-9 /z" Kick. Taste very acrid. Woods. Aug. Nov. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



1578. L. trivialis Fr. Cke. Ulus. no. 933, t. 976. Trivialis, common. 

 P. 6-17 cm., at first dark lurid, becoming pale when full grown, pallid 



yellowish, tan-flesh-colour, convex, then soon depressed, at length in- 

 fundibuliform, viscid; margin involute, at length only the pellicle in- 

 flexed. St. 2-5-15 x 2-5 cm., paler than the pileus, slippery. Gills 

 whitish, becoming pale, subdecurrent, rather broad, somewhat thin, 

 crowded. Flesh white. Milk white, sometimes becoming yellow, acrid. 

 Spores ochraceous, globose, 6 8ju,, echinulate, 1-guttulate. Cystidia 

 "subulate, 60-75 x 9-1 1/z" Rick. Taste acrid. Coniferous woods, 

 and heaths. Aug. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1579. L. circellatus Fr. Cke. Ulus. no. 934, t. 990. Circellatus, ringed. 

 P. 5-10 cm., rufous inclining to fuscous in wet weather, becoming 



pale, variegated with darker zones, umbilicato-convex, then becoming 

 plane, depressed in the centre, often repand when older, very viscid 

 in wet weather. St. 4-5 x 1-1-5 cm., pale, equal, or attenuated at 

 the base, tough. Gills whitish then becoming yellow, subdecurrent with 

 a tooth, horizontal, very thin and crowded, narrow, often forked. Flesh 

 white, cheesy. Milk white, acrid. Spores ochraceous, globose, 7-8/z, 

 echinulate. Taste very acrid. Woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1580. L. uvidus Fr. (= Lactarius aspideus Fr. sec. Quel. ; Lactarius 

 fiavidus Boud. sec. Quel.; Lactarius violascens (Otto) Fr. sec. 

 Bataille.) Cke. Illus. no. 935, t. 991. Uvidus, moist. 



P. 3-10 cm., hoary whitish, grey flesh-colour-livid, becoming fuscous, 

 somewhat thin, convex, plane, then depressed, viscid; margin at first 

 involute, very soon almost straight. St. 4-9 cm. x 12-18 mm., 

 whitish, becoming light yellow, sometimes with yellow ferruginous spots, 

 equal, viscid, sometimes pitted. Gills shining white to dead white, 

 spotted with lilac when wounded, sometimes yellowish, or ochraceous 

 ferruginous or tinged with pallid brick colour, adnate and subde- 

 current, arcuate, thin, crowded, very unequal, here and there branched 

 and anastomosing by veins. Flesh white, lilac when broken. Milk 

 white, then lilac, acrid. Spores pale ochraceous, broadly elliptical, 

 10-12 x 8-9 fji, echinulate. Cystidia "subulate, pointed, 50-75 x6- 

 10 ju. " Rick. Smell nauseous, or aromatic, taste slowly acrid. Woods, 

 and heaths. Aug. Nov. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



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