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lu woods and pastures. Not uncommon. Persistently 

 dingy. 



27. H. murinaceus, Fr. ; brittle, strong-scented ; pileus 

 thin, campanulate, flattened out, irregular, viscid, soon dry, 

 rimxdoso-squamose ; stem rather hollow, unequal, somewhat 

 compressed, even ; gills adnate, separating, broad, distant, 

 somewhat undulated, white, then glaucous. 



In pastures. Noteommon, C.£.i?roome. Smellstrong, nitrous. 

 This is quite different from A. murinaceus, y^\ac\\ is a Tricholoma. 



8. LACTARIUS, Fr. 



Hymenophornm confluent with the stem and vesiculose 

 trama. Gills milky, edge acute. 



* Grills not decidedhj clianri'ing colour ; milh at first lohite, acrid. 



1. L. torminosus, Fr. ; pileus fleshy, depressed, somewhat 

 zoned, pallid as well as the equal, stuffed, at length hollow 

 stem ; margin involute, bearded ; gills thin, dirty-white ; milk 

 acrid, white, unchangeable. — Sow. t. 103. 



In woods, fields, etc. Common. Pileus 3 inches or more 

 across, sometimes tinged with reddish-grey, or flesh-coloured. 



2. L. cilicioides, Fr. ; pileus fleshy, soft, depressed, tomen- 

 tose, zoneless, turning pallid, margin fibrilloso-lanuginous ; 

 stem stuffed, even, pruinosc, silky, spotless, pallid ; gills 

 crowded, branched, white, becoming yellowish as well as the 

 milk. 



In pine-woods. Edinburgh, Greville. Rare. 



3. L. tvirpis, Fr. ; pileus compact, plane, olive-umber, zone- 

 less, margin at first clothed with yellowish down ; stem stuffed, 

 short, viscid, attenuated downwards, olive; gills thin, pallid, 

 milk-white, acrid. — Kromb. t. 69. /. 1-G. 



In fir-woods. Coed Coch. East Bcrgholt, where Dr. l^ad- 



