6 FUNGUS-FLOKA. 



Lactarius (Piper.) cilicioides. Fr. 



Pileus 2-4 in. across, convex then expanded and the centre 

 depressed, every part tomentose, viscid, not zoned, pale flesh- 

 colour with a fuscous tinge, margin involute, fi.brillose and 

 ■woolly; flesh yellowish -white, milk acrid, white or with 

 a tinge of yellow eventually; gills decurrent, crowded, 

 hranched, yellowish-white ; stem firm, stuffed, usually more 

 or less hollow with age, equal, 2-3 in. long, 1 in. thick, 

 even, prninosely-silky under a lens, pallid, not roughened 

 nor spotted ; spores minutely echinulate, 8 X 6-7 /x,. 



Lactarius cilicioides, Pries, Epicr., p. 334 ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 306 ; Cke., Illustr., pi. 973. 



In woods, pastures, &c. 



Intermediate between L. torminosus and L. turpis. Stem 

 dingy, not pure in colour like L. torminosus. (Fries.) 



Pileus 2-4 in. broad, depressed, margin rounded, involute, 

 reddish-buff sometimes glutinous, very downy, becoming 

 fibrillose at the margin. Gills yellowish, irregular and often 

 branching, apparently decurrent from the expansion of the 

 stipes into the substance of the pileus. Flesh yellowish-white, 

 darker towards the surface. Stem about 2 in. high, nearly 

 1 in. thick, dingy white, yellow or brown. There is no juice, 

 but a considerable moisture on the surface of the pileus 

 which seems to originate from the plant. (Grev.) 



Lactarius (Russ.) lateritioroseus. Karst. 

 Pileus up to 3^ in. broad, convex with an umbilicus, soon 

 depressed, often at length somewhat infundibuliform and 

 wavy, often unequal, zoneless or rarely slightly zoned, flesh 

 up to 4 lines thick, becoming very thin towards the margin, 

 dry, becoming broken up at the disc into minute, granule- 

 like squamules, scales larger towards the margin, and dis- 

 appearing eventually, flesh-colour or brick-red with a rosy 

 tinge, becoming pale ; gills decurrent, rather distant, thin, 

 up to 3 lines broad, often furcate and connected by veins, 

 becoming yellowish ; stem up to 3 in. long and f in. thick, 

 stuffed, sometimes becoming hollow at the base; unequal, 

 incrassated at the base^ curved or flexuous, rarely straight, 

 very slightly flocculose, colour of the pileus or paler ; spores 

 Bubglobose, echinulate, uniguttulate, white, 8-9 x 6-8 /a ; 

 milk acrid, white. 



