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Lactarius torminosus, Fr . 



Colic Lactarius. Woolly Lactarius. 



Agaricns torminosus, Schaeff. A. 7iecafo7', Bull.'' A. piperaius, L. 



A. barbahis, Retz. 



Pileus convex, 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 ; 

 lamellae thin, close, narrow, whitish, often tinged with yellow or flesh 

 color ; stem equal or slightly tapering downward, hollow, sometimes 

 spotted, whitish ; spores subglobose or broadly- elliptical, .00035 ^^ 

 .0004 in., milk white, taste acrid. 



Pileus 2 to 4 in. broad, stem 1.5 to 3 in. long, 4 to 8 lines thick. 



Woods. Adirondack mountains and Sandlake. August. 



This species differs from all the preceding by its unchangeable milk, 

 and from all the following by the coarse tomentum or hairs of the mar- 

 gin of the pileus. Badham says that it is acrid and poisonous, and Gil- 

 let declares it to be deleterious and even dangerous, and that in the 

 raw state it is a very strong drastic purgative. On ihe other hand Cor- 

 dier states that almost all authors agree in saying that it is eaten with 

 impunity, and that Letellier has eaten it more than once without in- 

 convenience. 



Lactarius sordidus, Peck. 



Pileus thick, firm, convex and centrally depressed, then nearly plane 

 or subinfundibuliform, subglahrous, slightly viscid when moist, soon dry, 

 pale yello'wish-hrown, tinged with sordid gree7i,ottex\ darker in the cen- 

 ter ; lamellae narrow, close, white or yellowish ; stem short, firm, equal 

 or slightly tapering upward, hollow, colored like the pileus, generally 

 spotted ; spores .0003 to .00035 in.; milk white, taste acrid. 



Pileus 2 to 4 in. broad, stem i to 2 in. long, 4 to 8 lines thick. 



Woods and open places, especially under spruce and balsam trees. 

 Adirondack mountains and Sandlake. August and September. 



This species appears to resemble L. turpis Fr. in color, but that 

 species differs, according to the description of Fries, in having the mar- 

 gin of the pileus at first villose or tomentose, the stem stuffed, attenua- 

 ted downward, not spotted, and the pileus covered with a tenacious 

 gluten. Like it, our plant has a sordid, forbidding appearance. It 

 sometimes appears to be adorned with a few obscure fibrils or to be 

 slightly scabrous or hairy. 



Lactarius trivialis, Fr. 



Common Lactarius. 

 Pileus convex, then nearly plane, umbilicate or centrally depressed, 

 glabrous, viscid, sometimes -donate, leaden-gray, livid-cinereous or pale 

 brown, often with a pink or lilac tint, the thin inflexed margin at first 

 with a grayish pruinosity ; lamellae rather narrow, close, thin, adnate, 

 sometimes forked, whitish, becoming pallid or creamy -yellow, with 

 dingy -greenish stains where 2O0unded ; stem equal or slightly tapering 

 upward, long or short, glabrous, rarely spotted, hollow, whitish, often 

 tinged with yellow or gray, paler than the jnleus ; spores yelloioish, 

 .0003 to .0004 in.; milk whitish or pale cream color, taste acrid. 



