LACTARIUS. 99 



'whitish, grey-flesh-colour-livid, becoming fuscous, fleshy, somewhat Lactarius. 

 thin, convex, plane, then depressed, margin at first involute, very 

 soon almost straight, even, smooth, viscous, zoneless ; flesh rather 

 lax, white then lilac when broken. Stem 4-9 cent. (i^-3K in-) 

 long, 1 2-1 8 mm. ( l /z-}i in.) thick, soon hollow, even or somewhat 

 pitted, smooth, viscous, whitish becoming light yellow, some- 

 times with yellowish-ferruginous spots. Gills adnate and some- 

 what decurrent, somewhat arcuate, 2-4 mm. (1-2 lin.) and more 

 broad, thin, crowded, very unequal, here and there connected by 

 branches and anastomosing with veins, shining white to dead 

 white, soon spotted with lilac when wounded, at length here and 

 there pallid ochraceous - ferruginous, even tinged with pallid 

 brick-colour. Milk white then lilac. 



Soft-fragile; somewhat insipid, at length slowly acrid ; odour weak, some 

 what nauseous-pungent, somewhat aromatic. It varies with the pileus obso- 

 letely zoned, slightly pellucid-striate when old, and with the gills sometimes 

 yellowish. The milk rarely remains white or at length turns dingy tan-colour; 

 commonly it becomes lilac. 



In woods. Uncommon. Aug.-Sept. 



Spores globose, echinulate, 5-6 mk. C.B.P. Name uvidus, moist. Fr. 

 Monogr. ii. p. 162. Hym. Eur. p. 426. Berk. Out. p. 205. C. Hbk. n. 593. 

 S. MycoL Scot. n. 557. 



*** PIPERATI. Pileus without a pellicle, &C. 



14. L. flexuosus Fr. Pileus 5-10 cent. (2-4 in.) broad, lead- 

 grey or violet-grey, becoming pale, zoned or zoneless, fleshy, 

 convex, becoming plane, depressed, somewhat repand, margin 

 at first and for a long time bent inwards, at length spreading, 

 erect, dry, at the first smooth, somewhat shining, then rivuloso- 

 scaly, unpolished, opaque; flesh hard, grumoso-compact, white. 

 Stem 5-9 cent. (2-3^ in.) long, 2.5 cent, (i in.) and more thick 

 upwards, solid, obese or equally attenuated downwards, not rarely 

 excentric, here and there somewhat lacunose, not however pitted, 

 pallid grey, the apex whitish, the base somewhat yellowish. 

 Gills adnate, somewhat horizontal, thick, distant, 2-3 mm. (i 

 ij lin.) broad, connected by branches, light yellowish, at length 

 becoming whitish-flesh-colour. Milk white, unchangeable. 



Remarkable ; hard, firm, very acrid. Under a lens the stem is clothed 

 with very delicate adpressed down. There is a form roseo-zonatus Post, 

 approaching L. flexuosus almost as Gomphidius roseus approaches Gomphidius 

 glutinosus. Fr. Icon. t. 169. f. 3. 



In pine woods, &c. Haywood Forest. Rothiemurchus. Glamis. 

 Oct. 



