LACTAEirS. 31 



Lactarins (Russ.) spintilosus. QaeL 



Pileus about li in. across, flesh rather thin, depressed. 

 Tunbo acute; clad, especially towards the margin with 

 minute erect spines, often zoned and spotted, flesh-colour, 

 bricfc-ied, or rosy-lilac ; gills decurrent, narrow, thin, jellow 

 flesh-colour, at length yellowish; stem 1-1 J in. long, 2-3 

 lines thick, flexnous, rugose, granulated, fragile, shinincr. 

 coloured lite the pileus, then paler, hollow; millr white, 

 peppery. 



Lactarius gpinulosus, Quelet, Champ. Xorm., t. 8, f. 10; 

 Cte., Hdbk., p. 316. 



On the ground. 



Tar. violacens, Cke., Hdbk., p. 316; Cte., lUustr., pL 

 9y5B. 



Kleus losy-violet, margin incurved: stem pale, almost 

 smooth, stuffed. 



On the ground. The typical form has not occurred iu 

 this country. 



*** Glabratl 



Lactarins (Russ.) volemns. Fr. 



Pileus 3-5 in. across, flesh thick, white, often tinged with 

 brown under the cuticle, rigid ; plane or more or less de- 

 pressed, obtuse, dry, golden-tawny, at length becoming 

 minutely broken up with cracks; gills decurrent, crowded, 

 2-3 lines broad, white then yellowish ; stem 2-3 in. long, 

 up to 1 in, thick at the apes, even, coloured like the 

 pileus and slightly pruinose, solid; milk copious, white, 

 unchangeable, mild ; spores 5-6 /i diameter. 



Lactarius coJerau-s, Flies, Epicr., p. 344; Cke., Hdbk., p. 

 316 ; Cke., Dlustr., pi. 999. 



In woods. 



Allied to L. quietus, but distinguished by the brighter 

 colour of pileus and stem, and white flesh. 



Stem stour, hard, solid, nearly equal or attenuated upward, 

 2— 2?r in. long, f— 1^ in. thick, even, pruinose. Pileus com- 

 pact, rigid, obtuse, plano-convex, margin at first incurved, 

 at length depressed, 3 in. and more broad, even, becoming 

 rimosely livulose, dry, and like the stem, rufous-tawny 



