488 LACTARIUS 



1595. L. sanguifluus (Paul.) Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 50. 



Sanguis, blood ;fiuus, flowing. 



P. 3-8 cm., reddish tawny, spotted with darker markings, rarely 

 zoned, becoming stained with verdigris, plane, then depressed, firm, 

 slightly viscid; margin at first involute and white pruinose. St. 

 3-6 x 1-2-5 cm., rosy flesh, or blood colour, at length concolorous and 

 stained verdigris, at first equal, then dilated at the apex, and attenuated 

 at the base, pruinose, often pitted. Gills pale ochraceous, then con- 

 colorous, and finally stained verdigris, adnate, then decurrent, very 

 crowded, rather narrow, often branched. Flesh white, tinged with 

 blood-red especially near the cuticle of the stem, firm, cheesy. Milk 

 blood-red, slightly acrid. Spores pale ochraceous, globose, 8-9 x 8/u,, 

 echinulate, 1-guttulate. Cystidia "sparse, subulate, 45 x 5-8 //," 

 Rick. Smell pleasant, often like Mentha piperita, taste slightly acrid. 

 Edible. Pine woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



III. St. central. Gills pallid, then changing colour, afterwards darker, 

 glancing when turned to the light, at length white pruinose. Milk 

 at the first white, mild, or mild becoming acrid. 

 *P. at the first viscid. 



1596. L. paffldus (Pers.) Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 948, t. 1007. 



Pallidus, pale. 



P. 615 cm.., flesh colour, or clay colour to pallid, somewhat tan, um- 

 bilicato-convex, depressed, obtuse, viscid; margin broadly and for a 

 long time involute. St. 56 x 1-5 cm., concolorous, somewhat equal. 

 Gills whitish, then concolorous, pruinose, subdecurrent, rather broad, 

 somewhat thin, crowded, somewhat branched. Flesh pallid. Milk 

 white, acrid. Spores white, globose, 9-10//,, echinulate, 1-guttulate. 

 Cystidia "abundant, subulate-fusiform, 70-75 x 7-9 /u, " Rick. Taste 

 mild, then acrid. Woods. Sept. Oct. Common, (v.v.) 



1597. L. quietus Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 51. Quietus, calm. 

 P. 3-9 cm., somewhat cinnamon, flesh colour, disc darker, somewhat 



zoned, convex, then depressed, obtuse ; margin deflexed, at first very 

 slightly viscid, then somewhat silky, opaque, becoming pale. St. 

 4-9 x 1-1-5 cm., rufescent, at length beautifully rubiginous, spongy, 

 equal, sometimes attenuated at the base which is covered with con- 

 colorous hairs. Gills white, then soon brick-rufescent, adnato-decurrent, 

 somewhat forked at the base. Flesh white, then rufescent. Milk white, 

 sweet. Spores white, globose, 8-10/u,, verrucose. Cystidia "lanceolate- 

 subulate, 50-60 x 6-7 //," Rick. Smell oily, taste pleasant. Woods. 

 Aug. Dec. Common, (v.v.) 



1598. L. aurantiacus (Fl. Dan.) Fr. Aurantiacus, orange. 

 P. 3-6 cm., bright golden orange colour, convex, then plane, or de- 



