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becoming dingy when bruised and with age. The gills are 
often attacked by a reddish mould, Hypomyces lateritius. 
Edible. The “ vegetable sheep’s kidneys ” of French cooks. 
L. sanguifluus ( sanguis , blood ; fluo , to flow) differs only in 
the blood-red milk. 
Section III.—RUSSULARIA 
L. quietus (quietus, mild—from its taste). Plate XLIV. 9. 
P.2-3 in.,obtuse,then depressed; oftenw r avyand irregular 
viscid, cinnamon llesh colour at first; disc usually darker, 
becoming paler and dry. F. white, then tinged red. Milk 
persistently white and mild. G. slightly decurrent, white, 
then pale brick-red. S. 2-3 in., thick, reddish-cinnamon; 
usually darker below, stuffed ; “ flesh firm, bearing a strong 
pressure without breaking; when old less firm, but not 
hollow, mild ; odour oily, and sometimes that of bugs ” 
(Berkeley). One of the commonest representatives of the 
genus, occurring, usually gregariously, in woods and 
thickets, by roadsides, etc., throughout the autumn. A 
somewhat showy species, never truly robust, always more 
or less soft. 
L. theiogalus (Gr. theion , brimstone; gala , milk—from the 
sulphur-coloured milk). 
P. 1-3 in., convex, then depressed and infundibuliform, 
and sometimes papillate, glabrous, viscid, shining when 
dry, not zoned, tawny-rufous. G. adnato-decurrent, pallid, 
then rufescent. S. 1-2 in., slender, stuffed, then hollow, 
tawny-rufous. Milk white at first and mild, slowly be¬ 
coming sulphur colour and acrid. Frequent in aut. in 
mixed woods, pine, etc., and amongst heather. 
L. rufus (from the reddish colour). Plate VII. 3. 
P. 3-4 in., margin incurved at first, umbonate, then in¬ 
fundibuliform, the umbo always persisting, zoneless, dry, 
polished, rufous-bay or reddish-cinnamon when old. Milk 
