99 LACTARIAE OF THE UNITED STATES 
3. LACTARIA VELLEREA (Fr.) Fr. Epicr. 340. 1838. 
[As Lactarms.]. — Schrót. in Cohn, Krypt.-Fl. 
Schles. 3: 538. 1880 
Agaricus vellereus Fr. Syst. Myc. т: 76. 1821. | 
Pileus fleshy, thick, firm, convex-umbilicate, with inrolled, then | 
extended margin, depressed in the center, whitish, tinged in places | 
with grayish or yellowish, dry, minutely tomentose, 6-11 cm. A 
broad ; gills whitish, becoming cream-colored ог yellowish, chang- = 
ing to brownish with injury, many forking near the stem, inter- | 
veined, shorter gills often joining with longer, distant, appearing | 
more so with age or in larger specimens, adnate to slightly decur- 
rent, 2-5 mm. broad; stem whitish, tinged in places with yellow, 
equal or rounded at the base, pruinose-velvety, 3-4 cm. long, | 
18-25 mm. thick ; flesh white at first, staining yellowish; spores | 
white, globose to ovate or elliptical, with only a few scattering | 
blunt spines, uniguttulate, 5-6 » x 8 и ; latex white, acrid, unchang- | 
ing, or if creamy soon becoming white again. Regarded as - 
poisonous by some. 2 
Нав.: Open deciduous woods. July, August, September. - 
Півтків.: New York, Peck, Earle, Burlingham, Peck & Earle | 
(Long Island) ; Vermont, Burlingham 49, 1906; Maine, White; | 
Connecticut, Underwood, Hanmer 153; New Jersey, Earle; Vir- E. 
ginia, Murrill 135; North Carolina, 1000-1200 meters elevation, | 
Burlingham ror, 1907 ; Tennessee, 300 meters elevation, Murrill. : 
526; South Carolina, Ravenel ; Alabama, Earle. 3 
Irrusr. : Вапа, Champ. Nice, //. 22. f. 6-9; Bres. Fung. Mang. | 
A 67; Britz. Lact. f. 26; Bull. Herb. Fr. pl. 558. f. G, Н, Ni © 
Cooke, Br. Fungi, ai 980; Cordier, Champ. Fr. ai 28. f. 27 - 
Gillet, Champ. Fr. ai 153 [400] ; Hahn, Der Pilz-Sammler, ей. | 
2. pl. 4. f. 17; Hussey, Illust. Br. Myc. 1: pl. 63; Klotzsch, ~ 
in Dietrich, Fl. Вог. ai, 469; Krombh. Abbild. pl. 57. f. 10-135 № 
Lanzi, Fung. Mang. ai 54.7. 1; Lorinser, Essb. und Gift. Schwam. _ 
pl. 9. f. 5; Phoebus, Deutschl. Krypt. Giftgewachse, РА 4. А 3» - 
4; Rich. & Rose, Atl. Champ. ad ҙа. f.1—3 ; Sicard, Hist. Nat. 
Champ. 7/45. f. 239; Sowerby, Eng. Fungi, pl. год, Agaricus 
Listert ; White, Conn. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull. 3: ai 9: 
Exsic. : * Ravenel, Fungi Caroliniani, fasc. 2, 5p. p. ; Roume- 
guère, Fungi Gallici 5579. 
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* In the Fungi Caroliniani Exsic. of Ravenel, fasc. 2, no. 5 in the ‘herbarium 
of the N. Y. Botanical Garden, there are two specimens of Z, ve//erea Fr. оп the sheet 
with 2. pizerata (L.) Fr. 
