CLASSIFICATION 157 



L. squalidus. — Cap 1-2 in. across, pale greyish olive, not zoned ; 

 gills adnate, pale yellow ; stem about 2 in. long, pale brown ; 

 milk white, mild. 



Differs from L. pyrogalus in pale yellow gills and mild milk. 



Among moss in damp woods. 



L. capsicum. — Cap 1^-3 in. across, deep chestnut, e,dge strongly 

 incurved ; gills slightly decurrent, pale tawny, with a golden 

 tinge ; stem about 2 in. long, whitish, with tawny fibrils ; milk 

 white, acrid. 



On the ground under birches. 



L. chrysorrheus. — Cap about 2 in. across, soon depressed, pale 

 yellowish flesh-colour, with indistinct zones or spots ; gills de- 

 current, dingy yellow ; stem about i\ in. long, white ; milk white, 

 changing to golden yellow, acrid. 



In woods. 



L. acris.- — Cap about 3 in. across, often excentric or irregular 

 and obliquely infundibuliform, sooty grey, spotted sometimes, 

 slightly zoned ; gills slightly decurrent, pallid, then pinkish yellow ; 

 stem i|-2 in. long, stout, pallid ; milk white, soon becoming 

 reddish, acrid. 



Smell strong ; milk white, then reddish. 



In woods. 



L. glaucescens. — Cap fleshy, rigid, convex, then more or less 

 plane and umbilicately depressed, smooth, even, dry, zoneless, 

 white, then cream-colour, more or less spotted ochraceous white, 

 edge inturned, 2-3 in. across ; gills adfixed, densely crowded, some- 

 what forked, narrow, whitish; stem solid, firm, narrowed down- 

 wards, smooth, whitish, up to 2 in. long ; milk copious, white, 

 changing to pale glaucous green. 



Readily distinguished by the change in colour of the milk. 

 Taste acrid. 



On the ground in woods. 



L. umhrinus. — Cap 2-3 in. across, soon slightly depressed, 

 floccose, often wavy and excentric, olive-umber, paler and yel- 

 lowish when dry ; gills slightly decurrent, pallid yellowish ; stem 

 about I in. long, stout, a little paler than the cap ; milk white, 

 forming grey spots where it escapes, acrid. 



In pine woods. 



L. pergamenus. — Entirely white ; cap 2-3 in. across, soon de- 

 pressed ; gills adnate, very narrow, and closely crowded, becoming 

 straw-colour ; stem 3-4 in. long, stout ; milk white, acrid. 



Known by the very narrow, much crowded gills. 



In woods. 



L. piperatus. — Entirely white ; cap 4-8 in. across, becoming 



