118 Thirty-eighth Keport ok the State Museum. 



stem stuffed or hollow, even, colored like the pileus ; spores yelloioish, 

 inclining to pale flesh-color, subglobose, .0003 to .00035 ''^•! niilk white, 

 changing to sidphur- yellow, taste tardily acrid, bitterish. 



Pileus 2 to 5 in. broad, stem i to 3 in. long, 4 to 10 lines thick. 



Woods and groves. Common. July to October. 



Our plant does not fully accord with the description of the species as 

 given by Fries. The pileus is moderately thick and compact, varying 

 from convex or nearly plane and umbilicate to depressed or infundibuli- 

 form, slightly viscid when moist, zoneless or obscurely zonate, varying 

 in color from pale grayish-red to tawny-red or brick-red, there being a 

 mixture of gray yellow and red not easily defined. Gillet describes the 

 pileus as " tawny-red, clear brick- red, bistre-red or orange-yellow di- 

 versely shaded." It somewhat resembles L. torminosus in color, but 

 the glabrous margin and changeable milk distinguish it. The surface 

 of the pileus has a minutely uneven or unpolished appearance, but it is 

 smooth to the touch. The lamellse are sometimes forked near the stem, 

 whitish tinged with creamy-yellow or flesh color, and they often become 

 stained with reddish-brown when old or bruised. The stem is generally 

 paler than the pileus. It is commonly hollow, though sometimes stuffed 

 or spongy within. Rarely it is spotted or stained with reddish-brown. 

 When the flesh is cut or broken it soon assumes the pale-yellow color 

 of the exposed milk. The taste is tardily or moderately acrid, or some- 

 what woody and bitterish. Its less acrid taste, unspotted and more 

 reddish pileus, distinguish it from the preceding species. According to 

 Gillet it is pronounced edible by some authors, poisonous by others. 

 Cordier says that the pileus is dry, that the stem is almost always stuffed, 

 and that it passes for poisonous, but that Letellier has eaten it more 

 than once without inconvenience. 



Lactarius resimus, Fr. 



Recurved Lactarius. 



Pileus convex and umbilicate, then infundibuliform, even, glabrous, 

 viscid, zoneless, whitish oi' pallid, the margin at first involute, white- 

 tomeniose, at length spreading, naked ; lamellse decurrent, whitish ; stem 

 even or obsoletely spotted, villose, hollow, thick ; milk quickly chang- 

 ing to sulphur-yellow, taste acrid 



Var. regalis. (L. regalis, Peck.) Pileus yellowish-white, the margin 

 glabrous ; stem glabrous ; spores globose, .0003 in. 



Pileus 4 to 6 in. broad, stem 2 to 3 in long, 8 to 12 lines thick. 



Woods. Croghan. September. Rare. 



Our plant, which has been observed but once, has the margin of the 

 pileus and the stem glabrous, but it can scarcely be more than a variety 

 of the species, and as such ve have subjoined it. 



Lactarius scrobiculatus, Fr. 



Spotted-stemmed Lactarius. 

 Agaricus scrobiculatus, Scop. Agarictts theiogalus, A. & S. 



Pileus convex, then nearly plane or centrally depressed, viscid when 

 moist, zoneless or slightly zonate, reddish-yellow or sulochraceous, the 

 margin at first involute, then spreading, tomentose hairy j lamellae thin, 



