106 AGARICINI. 



Lactarius. ii. p. 171. Hym. Eur. p. 432. Icon. t. 170. B. & Br. n. 1672. S. Mycol. 

 Scot. Supp. Scot. Nat. 1882, p. 217. 



30. L. cyathula Fr. Pileus 2.5-5 cent - ( : - 2 in -) broad, slightly 

 fleshy, convexo-plane, umbonate, at length piano-depressed, umbo 

 often vanishing, viscid in wet weather, soon dry, always very 

 opaque, when in full vigour even, rufescent-brick or flesh colour, 

 somewhat zoned, when dry becoming pale, livid or flesh-clay- 

 colour, hoary -tan, rimoso - rivulose; flesh white- flesh- colour. 

 Stem about 5 cent. (2 in.) long, 2-10 mm. (1-5 lin.) thick, stuffed, 

 internally spongy-soft, equal, round, even, smooth, pale, at length 

 whitish. Gills decurrent, very crowded, thin, scarcely reaching 

 2 mm. (i lin.) in breadth, linear, white-flesh-colour then yellowish. 

 Milk white, unchangeable, acrid. 



Growing in troops, for the most part -very thin and very small, but larger, 

 firmer, and darker specimens occur. Allied to L. vietus, but remarkable for 

 its stature, thinness, and mode of growth ; easily distinguished by the white 

 milk being unchangeable when the gills are wounded, by its having at the 

 first scarcely any odour, but a strong smell of bugs when withering or half- 

 dried. It varies with the pileus zoneless, not umbonate. 



In woods. Rare. Aboyne, &c. Aug.-Nov. 



Name cyathula, a little cup. From its shape. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 172. 

 Hym. Eur. p. 433. B. & Br. n. 1016. C. Hbk. n. 604. S. Mycol. Scot. 

 n. 571. 



** Pileus unpolished, squamulose, &c. 



31. L. rufus Fr. Pileus 7.5-10 cent. (3-4 in.) broad, bay- 

 brown-rufous, fleshy, umbonate when young, soon depressed with 

 an umbo, and at length infundibuliform, wholly zoneless, dry, 

 at the first flocculoso-silky, but soon polished, smooth, somewhat 

 shining, margin involute when young, somewhat whitish-tomen- 

 tose; flesh not compact, pallid. Stem 5-7.5 cent. (2-3 in.) long, 

 about 12 mm. (% in.) thick, stuffed, somewhat fragile, equal, 

 obsoletely pruinate or wholly smooth, rufescent, but paler than the 

 pileus, white -pubescent at the base. Gills adnato- decurrent, 

 crowded, about 3 mm. (\ l / z lin.) broad, quaternate, scarcely 

 branched, ochraceous or pallid then rufescent. Milk white, 

 unchangeable. 



Odour none. Taste very acrid, stinging. The colour of the pileus when 

 older or dried passes into cinnamon-rufous. There is a smaller var. which 

 must be carefully distinguished from L. subdulcis ; very bitter. 



In pine woods. Common. June-Nov. 



The umbo is remarkably persistent and distinct even when most deeply 

 infundibuliform. Very poisonous. Spores globose, white. Fr. ; subsphaeroid, 

 8 mk. K. ; scarcely echinulate, almost round, 5 mk. W.G.S. Name rufus, 



