108 AGARICINI. 



Lactarius. rather plane, adnatodecurrent, 1-2 mm. (Yz-\ lin.) broad, thin, 

 often connected by branches, crowded, straw-colour, becoming in 

 the end tawny-flesh-colour or somewhat ochraceous. Milk white, 

 somewhat mild, at length acrid. 



Strong- smelling, with a sweet-spirituous pungent odour, which distinguishes 

 it from all others ; rigid, fragile, variable in stature, resembling L. vietus, but 

 sufficiently distinguished from it by the pileus being absolutely dry, and by the 

 gills being very crowded, straw - colour - ochraceous, and not spotted -when 

 wounded. The milk is sometimes unchangeable, sometimes becoming bright 

 straw-colour-green when dried on the broken flesh, but it does not change 

 colour on the gills. Var. stem elongated, hollow ; pileus at first silky, even ; 

 also umbilicate, repand, zoned. 



In woods, chiefly pine. Uncommon. Sept.-Nov. 



Spores sphaeroid, echinulate, 6-8 mk. K. Name yAvVvs, sweet ; 007*17, 

 smell. Sweet-scented. Fr. Monogr. ii. p. 175. Hym. Eur. p. 434. Icon. 

 * J 7-f- 3- Berk. Out. p. 209. C. Hbk. n. 606. S. Mycol. Scot. n. 573. 

 Ag. Krombh. t. 39. f. 16-18? 



35. L. fuliginosus Fr. Pileus 2.5-10 cent. (1-4 in.) broad, 

 fleshy, spongy-compact, at length softer, becoming plane, some- 

 what repand, not rarely uneven, margin at first inflexed, but very 

 soon spreading, flexuous, somewhat erect ; depressed, very dry, 

 at first even, tan-whitish, zoneless, sprinkled with innate, fuligi- 

 nous pruina, somewhat velvety to the touch, rather hard, some- 

 what slippery when wetted, at length naked, pelliculose, now and 

 then somewhat rugulose, soapy-livid, fawn-brick-colour, the disc 

 sometimes at last brown ; flesh almost equally attenuated towards 

 the margin of the pileus, moderately thick in the centre. Stem 

 4-7.5 cent. (1/^-3 in.) long, 6-10 mm. (3-5 lin.) thick, spongy- 

 stuffed, somewhat equal, even or at length obsoletely rugulose, 

 smooth, dead white to shining white then dingy, tan, somewhat 

 rufescent-brick-colour, fuliginous. Gills at the first rounded- 

 adfixed, soon decurrent, 2-6 mm. (1-3 lin.) broad, somewhat thin, 

 somewhat distant, white at length light yellow-ochraceous, con- 

 nected by branches and veins, the intermediate ones at length 

 crisped. Milk and flesh when broken white, soon rose-colour, at 

 length saffron-yellow. 



Taste mild, soon acrid, again after a time, and when old, mild, pleasant. 

 Odour weak, somewhat nauseous, somewhat pungent. Slightly firm, some- 

 what elastic ; when full grown and seen from above somewhat resembling A . 

 (Clitocybe) clavipes. The milk sometimes remains white ; it occurs also thin 

 and watery. 



In woods. Frequent. Aug.-Oct. 



The colour of the pileus is exactly that of coffee and milk. M.J.B. The 

 change of colour in milk and flesh is remarkable. Spores yellowish. Fr. ; 

 sphaeroid, echinulate, uniguttate, 6-10 mk. K. ; almost globular, 7 mk. 



