Leucosporee 



I. PIPERI'TES. 

 * TRICHOLOMOI'DEI. Pileus viscid, margin incurved, etc. 



L. tormino'silS Fr. tormina, gripes. Pileus 2-4 in. broad, convex, Lactarius. 

 then depressed, viscid when young or moist, yellowish-red or pale- 

 ochraceous tinged with red or flesh color, often varied with zones or 

 spots, the at first involute margin persistently tomentose-hairy . Gills 

 thin, close, narrow, whitish, often tinged with yellow or flesh color. 

 Stem 1.5-3 m - l n g> 4-8 lines thick, equal or slightly tapering down- 

 ward, hollow, sometimes spotted, whitish. Spores subglobose or 

 broadly elliptical, 9-io/>t. Milk white, taste acrid. 



Woods. Adirondack mountains and Sandlake. August. Peck, 

 38th Rep. N. Y. State Bot. 



Poisonous, and Gillet declares it to be deleterious and even danger- 

 ous, and that in the raw state it is a very strong drastic purgative. On 

 the other hand, Cordier states that almost all authors agree in stating 

 that it is eaten with impunity, and that Letellier has eaten it more than 

 once without inconvenience. 



Cooke states: "Whether it is poison is rather uncertain, and prob- 

 ably assumed from its acridity." 



Bulliard says: "It is very acrid and this is changed by heat into an 

 astringent of such power that a very little suffices to produce the most 

 terrible accidents." On the other hand, Boudier says that the pres- 

 ence of an acrid milk is an indication of no importance, that in cer- 

 tain parts of the country they eat such Lactaria as even L. piperatus 

 and do not experience any trouble. Certain Russulae as acrid as any 

 Lactaria are known to be inoffensive. 



The Russians preserve it in salt and eat it seasoned with oil and vine- 

 gar. 



L. tur'pis Fr. turpis, base, from its ugly appearance. Pileus large, 

 as much as 3-12 in. broad, olivaceous inclining to timber, fleshy, rigid, 

 convex becoming plane, disk-shaped or umbilicate, at length depressed, 

 innately hairy at the circumference or wholly covered over with tena- 

 cious gluten, zoneless, sometimes tawny toward the margin, at length 

 entirely inclining to umber; margin for a long time involute, at the first 

 villous, olivaceous-light-yellow, then more or less flattened, at length 



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