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GENERA AND SPECIES OF MUSHROOMS 



with a fine velvety wool (tomentum) that is soft to the touch; 

 white or whitish; exuding milk when cut or broken; this milk 

 is white, with an acrid taste. Cap 2 to 5 inches broad. 



Gills rather distant from each other; attached to the stem 

 or extending down it (adnate or decurrent) ; sometimes forked; 

 whitish when young, cream or yellowish when old. 



Stem white; firm; solid; cylindric or tapering downward; 

 downy or woolly; >^ to 2 inches long. 



Spores white; nearly smooth; .0003 to .00035 inch in 

 diameter. 



The soft, downy tomentum or wool which is characteristic 

 of this species and which covers the cap, gives it a downy or 

 frosted appearance when viewed from a little distance. The 

 stem is short and is sometimes broader than it is long. The 

 gills are about equal in width to the thickness of the cap. 

 They become stained where bruised. The milk that exudes 

 from wounds dries into cream-colored granules. The taste 

 is very acrid. Peck. 



Lactarius volemus; orange-brown lactarius. Plate XI, 

 Species 79. 



On ground in woods and open places; in groups or singly; 

 July to September; edible. 



Cap convex or nearly plane when young, becoming de-. 

 pressed at the center or even funnel-shaped when mature- 

 smooth; dry; golden- tawny or brownish-orange, sometimes 

 darker at the center; sometimes with a knob at the center 

 (umbonate); the peel sometimes cracks into small angular 

 patches; flesh white, sometimes tinged with yellow; milk 

 white, abundant, mild to the taste. Cap 2 to 5 inches broad. 



Gills attached to the stem or extending a little down it 

 (adnate or decurrent); white or tinged with yeUow; close 

 together; a milky fluid exudes when they are bruised or 

 broken; wounds of the gills assume a brownish hue. 

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