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subflexuousj dry, smooth, zonclcss, brownish-tawny, margin 

 inflexed ; stem solid, equal, somewhat incurved, paler, turning 

 yellowish, as well as the crowded gills ; milk sparing, of the 

 colour of serum. (Plate 13, fig. 4.) 



In woods. Common, ]\Iilk of a watery-white. 



22. L. mitissimus, Fr. ; pileus thin, fleshy, convex and 

 smooth, then depressed, papillate, dry, zoneless, even, orange, 

 as well as the stuffed, then hollow stem ; gills crowded, paler ; 

 milk mild, white. 



In woods and on hedge-banks. Not uncommon. Very 

 abundant about Coed Coch, and extremely beautiful. 



23. L. subdulcis, Fr. ; pileus thin, fleshy, papillate, at length 

 depressed, polished, even, zoneless, rufous-cinnamon ; stem 

 stuffed, then hollow, equal, subpruinose, becoming rufous, as 

 well as the brittle, crowded gills ; milk scarcely acrid, white. 

 —Sow. t. 204. 



In woods. Very common. 



24. L. eamphoratus, Fr. ; pileus fleshy, thin, depressed, 

 dry, somewhat zoned, smooth, brownish-red, as well as the 

 stufted, somewhat undulated stem ; gills crowded, yellow-red ; 

 milk mild, white. — Bull. t. 567. /. 1. 



In woods. Not very common. Bristol, Dr. Stephens, C. 

 E. Broome. Known by its powerful smell of Melilot, which 

 it retains for a long time in the herbarium. Pileus 1^ inch 

 across. 



25. L. rufus, Fr. ; pileus fleshy, umbonate, at length funnel- 

 shaped, dry, flocculosc, then smooth and shining, zoneless, dark 

 rufous; stem stuffed, rufous; gills crowded, ochraccous and 

 rufous; milk white, extremely acrid. — Huss. i. ^.15. 



In fir-woods. In most districts very common. The um- 

 bonate pileus and acrid milk at once distinguish this dangerous 

 fungus from the five preceding species. 



