Report of the State Botanist. 110 



close, adnate or slightly decurrent, whitish or yellowish ; stem equal, 

 stout, hollow, colored like the pileus, adorned by suborbicular depressed 

 spots of a brighter color ; spores white, .0003 to .00035 m -5 m ^k 

 white, changing to sulphur-yellozVj taste acrid. 



Pileus 3 to 6 in. broad, stem 1 .5 to 3 in. long, 6 to 12 lines thick. 



Wet, mossy ground in woods. Caroga. July. Rare. 



This Lactarius is similar to the preceding in size and shape, and like 

 that, it sometimes has the margin naked when old, but it is distin- 

 guished by its distinctly-spotted stem and more highly-colored pileus. 

 Its color approaches that of L. theiogalus, but its generally hairy margin, 

 together with its spotted stem and more acrid taste, will distinguish it 

 from that species. It is not deemed edible. 



Lactarius cilicioides, Fr. 



Tomentose Lactarius. 

 Agaricus tomentosus, Otto. Agaricus crinitus, SchserT. 



Pileus broadly convex or nearly plane, umbilicate or centrally de- 

 pressed, occasionally subinfundibuliform, soft, covered with long matted 

 hairs or tomentum, the center sometimes becoming naked with age, 

 zoneless, viscid when moist, white reddish-buff or dingy-incarnate ; 

 lamellae rather narrow, thin, close, adnate or slightly decurrent, some of 

 them forked, white, or tinged with yellow or incarnate ; stem short, equal 

 or tapering downward, pruinose, stuffed or hollow, not spotted, white or 

 whitish; spores white, .00025 t0 - 00 °3 i n »; milk white, sparse, slowly 

 changing to pale yellow, taste acrid. 



Var. albus. Pileus at first white, flesh white, stem short, milk very 

 sparse or almost none. 



Pileus 1.5 to 4 in. broad, stem .5 to 1.5 in. long, 3 to 6 lines 

 thick. 



Woods and open places, especially under or near pine trees. Forest- 

 burgh, Karner, West Albany and Greig. September and October. 



The tomentose Lactarius is distinguished from all our other species 

 by its conspicuously woolly pileus. It is this character that gives name 

 to the plant. The hairs or fibrils are long and intricately matted, and 

 so viscid in wet weather that fragments of leaves, sticks and dirt are of- 

 ten found adhering to them. The variety, which is found especially 

 on sandy soil near pine trees, is white when young, but with age it is 

 apt to become stained with a dirty-yellow or rusty-yellow hue, especially 

 in the center. The milk is very sparse and sometimes wanting. The 

 stem is so short that the pileus appears to rest on the ground. In the 

 form which grows in woods the stem is longer, and the pileus approaches 

 the next species in color. Fries describes the stem as two to three inches 

 long and one inch thick, but I have seen no specimens with stems so large. 

 The plant occurs in autumn, and sometimes several successive crops 

 appear in the same locality in one season. It is sometimes subcoespi- 

 tose. 



Milk white or whitish, unchangeable. 



1 



* Pileus viscid when moist. 



