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of the very ** hot " kinds, 

 the milk when it first 

 exudes from wounds and 

 if it changes color on ex- 

 posure to the air. These 

 tests of the plant should 

 be made of course while 

 it is fresh. The spores 

 are white, globose or 

 nearly so in all species, 

 and usually covered with 

 minute spiny processes. 

 There are a large number 

 of species. Peck, 38th 

 Report, N.Y. State Mus., 

 pp. 1 1 i-i 33, describes 40 

 American species. 



Lactarius volemus Fr. 

 Edible. This species is 

 by some termed the 

 orange brown lactarius 

 because of its usual color. 

 It was probably termed 

 Lactarius volemus be- 

 cause of the voluminous 

 quantity of milk which 

 exudes where the plant is 

 broken or bruised, though 

 it is not the only species 

 having this character. 

 In fresh, young plants, a 

 mere crack or bruise will 

 set loose quantities of the 

 milky juice which drops 

 rapidly from the plant. 

 The plant is about the 

 size of Lactarius delicio- 

 sus and occurs in damp 

 woods, where it grows 

 in considerable abund- 

 ance from July to Sep- 

 tember, several usually 



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