HYMENOMYCETES 
1 5o 
buliform; brownish-grey, whitish when dry. G. adnate 
scarcely decurrent, crowded, greyish-white. 5 . in., very 
slender, tough, soon hollow, fibrous outside, easily com¬ 
pressed, grey, apex with white meal. Common in dry pine 
woods in ant. A variable species ; easily known, however, 
by the absence of smell, the mealy apex of the stem, 
greyish-white gills, and the subumbonate, then plane and 
depressed, pileus. 
C. laccata (from the red colour of the pileus resembling 
gum-lac). Plate XLIV. 3-5. 
P. 1-2$ in., convex, umbilicate, often more or less wavy 
and irregular; flesh thin. There are two very distinct 
colour forms—one a rich, deep reddish-brown, the other a 
bright amethyst (var. amethystina ); in both the pileus 
becomes pallid or dingy-white, and minutely squamulose 
when old and dry. G. broadly adnate, distant, always the 
colour of the pileus, powdered white with the spores at 
maturity. S. 2-3 in., slender, tough, stuffed, the colour of 
the pileus. Woods and hedges. Usually gregarious, 
June to Dec. Very common. 
LACTARIUS 
(Lac, milk—from the milky juice) 
Closely allied to Russula, differing in the abundant 
granular milk (latex) which flows or drops from the pileus 
and gills when broken. The milk is usually white; in a few 
species it changes colour on exposure to the air ; and in one 
it is coloured from the first. Taste very variable—from mild 
to intensely acrid. The peculiarities of the milk are of 
importance in specific diagnosis. The numerous species 
are arranged in four sections as follows : 
Section I.—Piperites 
Stem central. Gills not becoming discoloured. Milk white at first, 
and usually acrid. 
