LACTARIUS 489 



pressed, sometimes umbonate, slightly viscid. St. 6-8 x 1 cm., con- 

 colorous, equal, pruinose. Gills yellowish flesh colour, decurrent, thin, 

 crowded, narrow. Flesh pallid. Milk white, slowly acrid. Spores 

 ochraceous, globose, 8-9 /n, echinulate. Cystidia "abundant, lanceo- 

 late-subulate, 75-90 x 10-1 IJM" Rick. Smell pleasant, taste mild. 

 Woods. Sept. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1599. L. theiogalus (Fr.) Plowr. (= Lactarius chrysorheus Fr. sec. 

 Quel.; Lactarius hepaticus (Plowr.) Boud.) Trans. Brit. Myc. 

 Soc. i, t. v. Oelov, brimstone; yd\a, milk. 



P. 2-5-7 cm., liver coloured when moist, drying to rufous tawny and 

 lighter at the margin, convex, then expanded, and finally depressed, 

 umbonate, umbo sometimes wanting, viscid at first; margin crenulate, 

 thin. St. 3-4 x -5-1 cm., slightly pinker than the colour of the pileus, 

 equal, attenuated at the base. Gills pale, then rufescent, adnato-de- 

 current, each terminating at the crenulations of the margin of the 

 pileus, 3-6 mm. broad, thin, rather distant. Flesh of the pileus pallid, 

 then ochraceous, of the stem becoming rufous especially downwards. 

 Milk white, very slowly changing to sulphur yellow, mild, then slightly 

 acrid. Spores white, globose, 6-7 /i, echinulate, 1-guttulate. Cystidia 

 "sparse, subulate, 45-75 x 6-8 ju," Rick. Fir woods. Aug. Nov. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1600. L. cremor Fr. Cremor, thick juice. 

 P. 3-6 cm., tawny orange, convex, then plane and obtuse, sometimes 



umbonate when young, often unequal and excentric, viscid, minutely 

 punctate; margin striate. St. 3-5 cm. x 6-8 mm., concolorous, equal, 

 fragile, silky upward under a lens. Gills white, then flesh colour, adnate, 

 somewhat distant, fragile, pruinose. Flesh concolorous, or paler, thin. 

 Milk whitish, often watery, somewhat mild. Spores white, globose, 

 9-10/u, echinulate. Cystidia "subulate, 45-60 x 7-8 p" Rick. Taste 

 mild, or slowly acrid. Beech woods. Sept. Rare. 



var. pauper Karst. Cke. Illus. no. 951, t. 1008. Pauper, poor. 



Differs from the type in being entirely yellowish flesh colour, ochra- 

 ceous when dry, the margin of the pileus at length sulcate, and the juice- 

 less, white flesh. Under larches. Sept. Rare. 



1601. L. vietus Fr. Cke. Illus. no. 952, t. 1009, fig. A. 



Vietus, shrunken. 



P. 3-6 cm., flesh colour, or livid grey, becoming pale, subpapillate, 

 becoming plane, then umbilicate, at length somewhat infundibuliform, 

 viscid, opaque, slightly silky when dry; margin somewhat deflexed. 

 St. 5-7 cm. x 4-10 mm., concolorous, attenuated upwards, or some- 

 what equal. Gills whitish, then yellowish, adnato-decurrent, thin, 

 somewhat crowded, somewhat flaccid. Flesh whitish, then grey. Milk 



