58 LACTARIAE ОЕ THE UNITED STATES E 
30. LACTARIA DELICIOSA (L.) Fr. Epicr. 341. 1838. [As Lac 
tarius.| — Schrót. in Cohn, Krypt.-Fl. Schles. 3: 
543. 1889 
Agaricus deliciosus L. Sp. Pl. 1172. 1753. 
Pileus fleshy, firm, convex-umbilicate, becoming plane, а | 
length infundibuliform, orange, yellow-orange or paler, zoned with — 
deeper orange, becoming paler with age, sometimes mixed with 
grayish and greenish tints, viscid when wet, glabrous, surface 
somewhat roughened, 5-12 cm. broad, margin even, glabrous, | 
involute, then arched, at length upturned ; gills deep-orange with | 
yellowish reflections, paler when old, and becoming greenish with 
age or where bruised, many forking near the stem and shorter 
gills forking into the longer, often connected with cross veins at the | 
base, close, somewhat decurrent, rather narrow ; stem of the same E 
color as the pileus, spotted with brighter orange, nearly equal, ` 
glabrous, or sometimes a little hairy at the base, smooth, stuffed, 
becoming hollow, 2.5-10 cm. long, 8-12 mm. thick ; flesh yd- + 
lowish, staining greenish next the gills and the exterior of the ` 
stem ; spores yellow, subglobose to elliptical, slightly echinulate, | 
more ог less hyaline, 8-8.5 иж 8-11 и; latex orange to red- | 
orange, aromatic and somewhat acrid. Ее. 
Has. : In moist woods, especially under firs and hemlocks. | 
August and September, or up to December and January in Florida. - 
Distris.: New York, Peck, Fisher, Burlingham то, 1905) | 
Maine, White; Vermont, Burlingham 44, 1906, Jones; Con- 
necticut, Earle, Underwood ; Alabama, Earle ; Florida, Fawcett’ 
Colorado, 2680 meters elevation, Clements. It has also been 
reported from North Carolina by Schweinitz and by Curtis ; from | 
Ohio by Morgan; and from California by Harkness & Moore. 
Плозт.: Atkinson, Stud. Am. Fungi, ai 35. f. г; Badham, | 
Escul. Fung. Eng. ai 6. f. 2; Вапа, Champ. Nice, pl. 19. f. 1-3” | 
Bern. Champ. Roch. ai 39. f. 1; Boyer, Champ. pl. 32; Вгезй“. 
dola, Fung. Mang. ai 64; Britz. Lact. f. 17; Cooke, Br. Fungh | 
pi. 982 (very good); Cordier, Champ. Fr. ai 25. f. г (poor); Eng. | 
& Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. т!**. 7. тто D; Fl. Dan. pl. ГІЗ 
Gauthier, Champ. ai rr. f. 1 (bad); Gibson, Edible Toadstools and | 
Mushrooms, ai 18; Gillet, Champ. Fr. ai 49 (166; 382] (мегу - 
good); Hahn, Der Pilz-Sammler, f. 20; Harzer, Pilze, pl- 10. 
(good); Hussey, Illust. Br. Fung. 1: A. 67; Krombh. Abbild. | 
pl. 11 (good); Lanzi, Fung. Mang. ai 53. f. 2 (good) ; Lorinsefy 
