104 AGARICINI. 



Lactarius. cent, (i in.) thick, stuffed then hollow, at length fragile, equal 

 or attenuated at the base, spotted in a pitted manner, of the 

 same colour as the pileus or paler. Gills somewhat decurrent, 

 crowded, narrow, arcuate, often branched, typically saffron- 

 yellow, but becoming pale and always becoming green when 

 wounded. Milk aromatic, from the first red brick- saffron. 



The pileus becomes pale in various degrees, often greenish ; it occurs also 

 cinereous, fuscous-zoned, &c. 



In woods, chiefly pine. Common in some localities. July- 

 Nov. 



Edible ; when young and fresh one of the most delicious of fungi, and from 

 its orange-coloured milk it cannot be mistaken for any other. Spores white. 

 Fr. ; sphasroid, echinulate, 7-8 mk. K. ; 6 mk. W.G.S. Name from its 

 delicious flavour. Fr. Monogr. ii. /. 168. Hym. Eur. p. 431. Sv. dtl. Sv. 

 t. 6. Berk. Out. p. 206. C. Hbk. n. 600. S. My col. Scot. n. 567. Husseyi. 

 t. 67. Ag. SchcBff. t. ii. Fl. Dan. t. 1751. Sv. Bot. t. 173. Letell. t. 632. 

 Viv. t. 13. Barla t. 19. Vittad. t. 42. Krombh. t. ii. Harz. t. 10. 



TRIBE III. RUSSULARES. 

 * Pileus at the first viscous. 



26. L. pallidus Fr. Pileus 7.5-15 cent. (3-6 in.) broad, flesh- 

 colour or clay-colour to pallid, somewhat tan, fleshy, umbilicato- 

 convex, depressed, obtuse, margin broadly and for a long time 

 involute, smooth, viscous, zoneless ; flesh pallid. Stem 5 cent. 

 (2 in.) and more long, about 18 mm. (fy in.) thick, somewhat 

 equal, stuffed then hollow, even, smooth, of the same colour 



as the pileus. Gills somewhat decurrent, arcuate, rather broad 

 (3-4 mm., i>^-2 lin. and more), somewhat thin, crowded, some- 

 what branched, whitish at length of the same colour as the pileus. 

 Milk white, unchangeable. 



Taste somewhat mild. Stature that of L. deliciosus, but more lax in texture 

 and always pallid. There is a var. with the pileus inclining to fuscous. 



In mixed woods. Uncommon. Sept.-Oct. 



Spores echinulate, almost round, 8 mk. W.G.S. Name from the pallid 

 colour. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 169. Hym. Eur. p. 431. Sv. dtl. Sv. t. 61. 

 Berk. Out. p. 207. C. Hbk. n. 601. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 568. Ag. Pers. 

 Krombh. t. 56. /. 10-12? 



27. L. quietus Fr. Pileus 7.5 cent. (3 in.) broad, fleshy, de- 

 pressed, obtuse, margin deflexed, smooth, at the first viscid, 

 somewhat cinnamon, flesh-colour, disc darker, somewhat zoned, 

 soon dry, somewhat silky, opaque, becoming pale; flesh white 

 then rufescent. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 12 mm. ()4 in.) 

 and more thick, stuffed, spongy, smooth, rufescent, at length 



