LACTARIUS 493 



1-5 cm., paler than ike pileus, equal. Gills pale ochraceous with darker 

 spots, deeply sinuate and slightly adnexed, subdistant. Flesh dingy 

 yellow, becoming reddish brown when cut. Milk white, then brown, sweet, 

 becoming very thick and tenacious. Spores colourless, globose, 

 with raised bands forming a network. Under beeches. Oct. Rare. 



1612. L. lilacinus (Lasch) Fr. Boud. Icon. t. 53. 



Lilacinus, lilac-coloured. 



P. 3-8 cm., rosy lilac, covered with a concolorous tomentum, often 

 spinulose when young, plane, then depressed, papillate, sometimes 

 very obsoletely zoned. St. 3-8 cm. x 5-12 mm., paler and more 

 ochraceous than the pileus, equal, somewhat rugulose, apex white- 

 mealy. Gills ochraceous, rarely tinted rosy lilac, adnato-decurrent, 

 narrow. Flesh rosy white, acrid. Milk white, acrid, plentiful. Spores 

 white, globose, or oval, 7-10/z, verrucose, reticulated. Cystidia "fusi- 

 form, 60-75 x 7-9 ju," Rick. Taste acrid. Woods, and damp places. 

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



1613. L. spinosulus Quel. Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. n, t. 11. 



Spinosulus, full of little spines. 



P. 2-4 cm., brick red, or rosy lilac, convex, acutely umbonate, then 

 depressed, covered with minute erect spines, especially towards the 

 margin, zoned and spotted. St. 3-4 cm. x 4-8 mm., concolorous, rugu- 

 lose, granular. Gills yellowish flesh colour, then yellowish, decurrent, 

 narrow. Flesh paler. Milk white, slowly acrid. Spores pale ochraceous, 

 globose, 7-8/it, echinulate. Taste slightly acrid. Woods. Sept. Oct. 

 Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



var. violaceus Cke. Cke. Illus. no. 961, t. 998, fig. B. Violaceus, violet. 

 Differs from the type in the rosy-violet p., the incurved margin, and 

 the pale st. On the ground. Sept. 



***P. polished, smooth. 



1614. L. volemus Fr. (= Lactarius lactifluus (Schaeff.) Quel.) Cke. 

 Illus. no. 962, t. 999. Volema pira, a species of large pear. 



P. 5-12 cm., rufous tawny, golden, becoming pale, compact, rigid, 

 obtuse, paler at the margin, plano-convex, at length depressed and 

 rimoso-rivulose; margin at first incurved. St. 6-10 x 1-5-3 cm., con- 

 colorous, somewhat equal, or attenuated upwards, obese, hard, pruinose. 

 Gills white to yellowish, adnato-decurrent, thin, crowded, becoming 

 dingy when wounded. Flesh white, becoming brownish on exposure to 

 the air. Milk white, sweet, plentiful, rarely becoming yelloiv. Spores 

 very pale ochraceous, globose, 5-6 /A, verrucose. Cystidia "very abun- 

 dant, subulate-fusiform, 60-100 x 8-9 /A, very undulating and thick 

 walled "Rick. Smell and taste very pleasant. Edible. Woods. Aug. 

 Oct. Not uncommon, (v.v.) 



