492 LACTABIUS 



var. flexuosus Massee. Cke. Illus. no. 958, t. 1011, as type. 



Flexuosus, full of turns. 



Differs from the type in the silky, umbilicate, flexuose, more or less 

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



1608. L. lignyotus Fr. Fr. Icon. t. 171, fig. 1. \iyvfa, smoke. 

 P. 4-8 cm., fuliginous umber, elastic-fragile, convexo-plane, some- 

 what depressed; margin at first incurved, then depressed, acutely- 

 umbonate, plicately-rugulose, or wrinkled sulcate, pruinosely velvety. 

 St. 7-12 x 1-5-2 cm., concolorous, base paler, becoming whitish, 

 fragile, corticate, constricted and plicate at the apex, pruinosely velvety. 

 Gills snow-white, then whitish ochre, reddish when wounded, rounded 

 behind and adnate, then subdecurrent, thin, rather crowded. Flesh 

 white, then slowly becoming reddish, ochraceous, or ferruginous. Milk 

 watery white, becoming reddish, or saffron colour, sparse, sweet. Spores 

 ochraceous, globose, 9/n, strongly echinulate, 1-guttulate. Taste 

 pleasant. Under fir, and beeches. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1609. L. fuliginosus Fr. (= Laciarius azonites (Bull.) Quel.) Cke. 

 Illus. no. 959, t. 996. Fuliginosus, sooty. 



P. 3-10 cm., tan whitish, sprinkled with innate, fuliginous pruina, 

 coffee and milk colour, finely velvety, then somewhat rugulose, soapy 

 livid, fawn brick colour, the disc sometimes at last brown, convex, 

 then somewhat repand and depressed; margin at first inflexed, then 

 soon spreading. St. 48 cm. x 610 mm., dead white to shining white, 

 then dingy, tan, somewhat rufescent-brick-colour, fuliginous, somewhat 

 equal, sometimes rugulose. Gills white, at length light yellow ochraceous, 

 rounded adnexed, then decurrent, somewhat thin, somewhat distant, 

 branched, connected by veins, the intermediate ones at length crisped. 

 Flesh and milk white, then rose colour, and at length saffron yellow. 

 Spores ochraceous, globose, 9-10/z, echinulate. Cystidia "sparse, 

 subulate " Rick. Taste mild, then slightly acrid. Woods, and pastures. 

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



1610. L.picinusFr. Cke. Illus. no. 960, t. 997. Picinus, pitch-black. 

 P. 4-8 cm., umber, or blackish umber, convex becoming plane, urn- 

 donate, orbicular, at first everywhere villose, somewhat velvety, then 

 becoming smooth. St. 5-8 x 1-1-5 cm., paler than the pileus, equal, 

 pruinose. Gills ochraceous, adnate, thin, very crowded, straight. Flesh 

 pallid, becoming reddish on exposure to the air. Milk white, acrid. 

 Spores ochraceous, globose, 7-10/a, echinulate and ribbed. Taste 

 acrid. Coniferous woods. Sept. Oct. Uncommon, (v.v.) 



1611. L. retisporus Massee. Rete, a net; a-iropd, seed. 

 P. 5-9 cm., dark smoky-brown, convex, then plane, disc depressed, 



minutely velvety, radially rugose from disc to margin. St. 3-5 x 



