484 LACTABIUS 



1581. L. flavidus Boud. (= Lactarius uvidus Fr. sec. Quel.) Trans. 

 Brit. Myc. Soc. iv, t. 9. Flavidus, yellowish. 



P. 5-10 cm., pale citron, or sulphur yellow, becoming stained with 

 violet on injury or rubbing, convex, then expanded and slightly de- 

 pressed at the centre, which often remains umbonate. St. 3-8 x 

 1-2 cm., white, or yellowish, soon stained with violet on handling or 

 other injury, more or less attenuated at the base. Gills yellowish, 

 bruising violet on injury, adnato-decurrent, narrow, crowded. Flesh 

 white, becoming quickly violet on exposure to the air. Milk white, then 

 violet, acrid. Spores white, ovoid, 9-10 x 8-9 ju,, verrucose, reticulate, 

 1-guttulate. Taste mild, then acrid. Woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon. 

 (v.v.) 



***P. without a pellicle, hence absolutely dry, most 

 frequently unpolished. 



1582. L. flexuosus Fr. Flexuosus, full of turns. 

 P. 5-10 cm., lead-grey, or violet-grey, becoming pale, zoned, or zone- 

 less, convex, becoming plane, depressed, somewhat repand, dry, some- 

 what shining, then rivuloso-scaly, OTfloccose; margin incurved, velvety, 

 and whitish. St. 5-9 x 1-5-2-5 cm., pallid grey, apex whitish, base 

 somewhat yellowish, obese, or equally attenuated downwards, often 

 lacunose or pitted, delicately pubescent. Gills light yellowish, at length 

 becoming whitish-flesh-colour, adnate, thick, distant, branched. Flesh 

 white, cheesy, hard. Milk white, very acrid. Spores pale ochraceous, 

 globose, 6-7 jn, verrucose. Cystidia "thin, clavate, 50-80 x 7-8/z," 

 Rick. Taste very acrid. Pine, and beech woods. July Oct. Un- 

 common, (v.v.) 



var. roseozonatus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 169, fig. 3. 



Rosens, rose-colour; zonatus, zoned. 



Differs from the type in the rose colour, or rosy violet pileus marked 

 with darker zones. Pine woods. Sept. Rare. 



1583. L. pyrogatas (Bull.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 937, t. 993. 



Trvp, fire; 70X0, milk. 



P. 5-10 cm., cinereous-grey, at length becoming dingy yellow, firm, 

 convex, becoming plane, depressed, somewhat zoned, delicately grumose 

 under a lens, moist in wet weather; margin soon spreading. St. 4- 

 6 cm. x 6-12 mm., pallid white, sometimes dingy, often attenuated 

 downwards, grumoso-tubercular under a lens. Gills light yellow-wax- 

 colour, the colour rich inclining to ochraceous or flesh colour, adnato- 

 decurrent, thin, somewhat distant. Flesh white, greyish near the pileus. 

 Milk white, very acrid. Spores pale ochraceous, subglobose, 7 8/x, 

 echinulate. Cystidia "only on the edge of the gill, 45-70 x 7-8 /t, 

 obtuse" Rick. Taste very acrid. Woods, and pastures. Aug. Dec. 

 Common, (v.v.) 



