LACTARIUS 485 



1584. L. squalidus (Krombh.) Fr. Krombh. t. 40, figs. 23-25. 



Squalidus, dirty. 



P. 2-5-9 cm., pale greyish olive, or lurid, margin sprinkled with 

 saffron-yellow dots, convexo-plane, umbilicate. St. 5-8 cm. x 5- 

 10 mm., white, or concolorous, equal, firm. Gills becoming yellow, 

 narrow, adnate. Flesh white. Milk whitish, sweet. Spores white, 

 globose, 6-10ju,,echinulate. Amongst moss in damp woods. Oct. Rare. 



1585. L. capsicum Schulz. Kalchbr. Icon. t. 26, fig. 1. 



Capsicum, red pepper. 



P. 510 cm., chestnut colour, darker at the closely involute margin, 

 compact, pulvinate, dry. St. 3-9 x 2-5 cm., whitish, rufous striate, 

 apex fulvous, subequal, or incrassated upwards. Gills fulvous, some- 

 what orange colour, adnato-decurrent, crowded, anastomosing at the 

 base, 3-4 mm. wide. Flesh yellow, becoming fuscous on exposure to 

 the air. Milk white, very acrid. Spores globose, 6/n, rough. Under 

 birches. Sept. Rare. 



1586. L. chrysorheus Fr. (= Lactarius theiogalus (Bull.) Quel.) Cke. 

 Ulus. no. 940, t. 984. xpv<ro<;, gold; pew, I flow. 



P. 5-8 cm., pale yellowish flesh colour, with darker zones or spots, 

 convex, umbilicate, then infundibuliform. St. 5-7-5 x 1-2-5 cm., 

 white, equal, delicately pruinose under a lens. Gills pallid yellowish, 

 decurrent, very thin and crowded. Flesh white, bright sulphur-yellow 

 when broken. Milk white, then bright sulphur-yellow (golden), very 

 acrid. Spores white, subglobose, 6-7 x 6//,, echinulate, 1-guttulate. 

 Cystidia "lanceolate, 50-60 x 8-12/x" Rick. Taste acrid. Woods, 

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

 L. glaucescens Crossland = Lactarius piperatus (Scop.) Fr. 



1587. L. acris (Bolt.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 941, t. 1005. Acris, sharp. 

 P. 5-9 cm., cinereous fuliginous, sometimes darker, sometimes paler, 



convex, then plane, at length obliquely infundibuliform, irregular, 

 often excentric, or emarginate on one side, firm, rigid, moist, here 

 and there spotted. St. 4-5 x 1-1-5 cm., pallid, apex white, attenuated 

 downwards, often oblique, ascending, or curved. Gills pallid, then 

 yellow flesh colour, subdecurrent, thin, somewhat crowded, forked. 

 Flesh white becoming reddish on exposure to air. Milk white, soon red- 

 dish, acrid. Spores ochraceous, subglobose, 8-11 /A, echinulate. Smell 

 strong, stinking, taste acrid. Woods. Aug. Nov. Rare. 



1588. L. violascens (Otto) Fr. (= Lactarius uvidus Fr. sec. Bataille; 

 Lactarius uvidus Fr. var. violascens (Otto) Quel.; Lactarius 

 luridus (Pers.) Fr. sec. Rick.) Violascens, becoming violet. 



P. 6-8 cm., grey, or pale brown, with darker zones, convex, then 

 expanded, or more or less depressed at the disc, dry. St. 5-6 cm. x 



