LACTABIUS. 9 



Lactarius (Piper.) aspideus. Fr. 



Acrid; every part dingy straw-colour, stem and gills 

 paler than the pileus ; giving out ever3"where when broken, 

 white milk that becomes lilac. Pileus 2-4 in. across, flesh 

 whitish, rather thin, loose ; plano-convex, unequal, somewhat 

 papillate then rather depressed, even, viscid, zoneless; gills 

 adnate, subdecurrent, rather crowded, about 1 line broad, 

 very unequal, connected by branches; stem almost equal, 

 stuffed then hollow, 2-3 in. long, up to in. thick, even, 

 glabrous, dry; spores globose, rough, 8-10 p. diameter. 



Lactarius aspideus, Fries, Epicr., p. 336 ; Cke., Hdbk., p. 

 307 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1083. 



In damp meadows, &c. 



Distinguished from all other species by the presence of a 

 white, tomentose, deciduous silky zone near the margin of 

 the pilleus ; when this disappears the margin is very glabrous. 

 L. uvidus also has milk that turns lilac, but differs in the 

 broad gills and obsoletely zoned pileus. 



** Limacini. 



Lactarius (Piper.) utilis. Weinm. 



Pileus 5-8 in. across, flesh thick; convex then plane, 

 obtuse, at length infundibuliform, humid but dry in fine 

 weather, glabrous, even, often cracked at maturity, tan- 

 colour ; gills adnate, crowded, 4-5 lines broad, pallid ; stem 

 2-3 in. long, 1 in. thick, fragile, even, coloured like the 

 pileus, hollow ; milk persistently white, somewhat acrid. 



Lactarius utilis, Weinmann, Hym. Ross., p. 43; Cke., 

 Hdbk., p. 307 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 1084. 



In woods. 



^ In the specimen found for the first time in Britain the 

 pileus was pale, and rather a dirty ochre, the stem darker, 

 and longitudinally striate, but otherwise in accord with the 

 description. (Cooke.) 



Lactarius (Piper.) insulsus. Fr. 



Pileus 3-4 in. across, fleshy, and not very compact, flesh 

 pallid, indistinctly zoned under the cuticle ; deeply umbili- 

 cate, at length infundibuliform, rigid, zoned, especially 

 near the margin, glabrous, yellowish brick-red, the viscid 



