LACTARIUS 491 



resinous, somewhat like Foenugreek, taste mild. Coniferous woods. 

 Aug. Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



1605. L. tomentosus (Otto) Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 956, t. 1010. 



Tomentosus, woolly. 



P. 7-9 cm., dingy flesh colour, rufescent, or brownish, umbonate, 

 then depressed, or infundibuliform, finely tomentose. St. 5x1- 

 1-5 cm., pallid, equal. Gills yellow flesh colour, rather decurrent. Flesh 

 white, then tinged brown. Milk whitish, mild. Spores white, globose, 

 8-9 n, verrucose. Smell pleasant, taste mild, then slightly acrid. 

 Damp places. Sept. Bare. 



1606. L. mammosus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 170, fig. 2. 



Mammosus, having large breasts. 



P. 3-6 cm., greyish fuscous, convex, acutely umbonate, umbo at 

 length vanishing, then depressed, clothed with appressed down; margin 

 involute, white-pubescent. St. 5-8 x 1-1-5 cm., white, inclining to pale, 

 pubescent, firm. Gills whitish, then pallid ferruginous, adnate, crowded. 

 Flesh reddish white. Milk white, mild ? then acrid. Spores white, " sub- 

 globose, 6-7 x 5-6 /z, echinulate. Cystidia subulate, 60 x 8-9 /LI" 

 Rick. Birch, and pine woods. Oct. Rare. 



var. monstrosus Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 957, t. 995. 



Monstrosus, strange. 

 Differs from the type in its larger size. Woods. Oct. Rare. 



var. minor Boud. Boud. Icon. t. 58. Minor, smaller. 



Differs from the type in its smaller size, and the pileus clothed with 

 shorter hairs. Under birches. Nov. Rare, (v.v.) 



1607. L. glyciosmus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 170, fig. 3. 



y\VKv<>, sweet; ocr^r}, scent. 



P. 2-7 cm., grey, brick colour, fuscous, most frequently passing into 

 violet, convex, becoming somewhat plane, acutely papillate, then de- 

 pressed, the papilla vanishing, delicately innato-squamulose, or un- 

 polished, opaque. St. 2-5-5 cm. x 4-8 mm., light yellowish, becoming 

 tawny when bruised, sometimes silvery-whitish, especially at the apex, 

 somewhat equal, pubescent. Gills straw colour, then tawny-flesh-colour, 

 or somewhat ochraceous, adnato-decurrent, arcuate becoming plane, 

 thin, often branched, crowded. Flesh white, then slightly tinged with 

 the external colour. Milk white, rarely greenish, mild, then slightly 

 acrid. Spores pale ochraceous, globose, 7-9 /j,, echinulate, 1-guttulate. 

 Cystidia "subulate, 69-70 x 7-9 /A" Rick. Smell very pleasant, 

 aromatic, taste mild. Edible. Woods. Aug. Nov. Common. 

 (v.v.) 



