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margin, 'besides being altc^ther a larger and more robnst. 

 form. 



Lactarins (Rnss.) minmiTis. "V7. G. Sm. 



Pilens about h in. acT'Oss, fleshy at the disc; convex ani 

 somewhat umbonate, excentric, smooth, even, margin in- 

 cnrved, pallid tan or pallid ; gills slightly decnrrent, distant^ . 

 arcuat*, pallid ; stem up to J in. long, 1 line thick, coloured 

 like the pilens, solid ; spores globose, echinulate, 3— t ft.; milk 

 copious, -n-hite, mild. 



Lacta I'ls minimus, "W. G. Smith, Jonrn. Bot. 1873, p, 205 ;_ 

 Cke., Illnstr., pL 986b.,- Cke., Hdbk., p. 31S. 



In pastures and woods. 



Distinguished by its small size. 



IT. PLErEOPUS. 



Lactarins fPletir.) obliqnns. Fr. 



Pilens about 2 in. across, flesh rather thick at the disc,- 

 margin thin; plane then depressed, oblique, lobed, sUky, white 

 then yellowish, more or less zoned with grey, even ; gills 

 very dightly decurrent, crowded, about IJ line broad, white ; 

 stem about 1 in. long, rather excentric, curved, 2 lines thick, 

 even, coloured like the pilens; spores globose, echinulate, 

 6 /I ; milk white. 



Lactarins obliqmis, Fries, Epicr., p. 34? ; Cke., Hdbk., 

 p. 319 ; Cke., niustr., pL 1014b. 



On trunks, banks, &c. 



Caespitose, slender, fragile, smell strong, pileus deformed. 

 (Fries.) 



In Co 'ke's figure the gills are dingy yellow, and the 

 pileus without zones. 



ErSSULA. Fries, (figs. I, 2, 3, p. 3.) 



Piletis regular, rigid, usually becoming more or less de- 

 pressed ; gills rigid, fragile owing to the trama being com— 

 posed of large spherical cells, edge thin and acute ; stem- 

 central, stout, rigid ; veil entirely absent ; spores subglobosCr- 

 minutely verruculose or echinulate, -white or yellow. 



