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1242. H. spadieeus Fr. (from the brown pileus; spadicms, datebrown)
a.
P. conical, subacute, campanulate, fibrillose, virgate, covered
with olive-bay gluten. St. equal, dry, fibrillose, tawny or
yellow, white below. G. ventricose, distant, lemon or clear
yellow.
Mossy and grassy places, on the ground. July. 2f X 2j X § in. Not
turning black.
1243. H. unguinosus Fr. (from the glutinous pileus and stem;
ungidnosus, oily) a b.
P. campanulato-convex, obtuse, sepia, umber, fuliginous or
yellowish-brown. St. equal or slightly attenuate above and
below, colour as P. G. adnate with a tooth, ventricose,
white.
Taste and odour none. Woods, pastures, moist places; frequent. Aug.-Oct.
i j X 3 | X i in.
1244. H. nitpatus Fr. (from the nitrous odour) abc .
P. convex, obtuse or depressed, at first viscid, then flocculoso-
squamulose and rimosely incised, fuscous-cinereous, blotted,
becoming pale, or deep umber with whitish marg. St. equal,
smooth, lustrous, grey-whitish. G. broadly emarginate, distant,
veined, whitish to glaucous.
Odour very strong and disagreeable, like compounds of nitrogen and oxygen.
Woods, pastures ; uncommon. Aug.-Nov. i f X 2 f X J in. Must not
be confounded with 111. There is a form larger than type. Var. glauco-
nitens Fr., rigid. P. dark-olive or sooty, becoming pale. G. becoming
glaucous. Persoon and others, including myself, regard the variety as a
distinct species. Berkeley, I believe, looked upon it as a Tricholoma
near 1 1 1 .
XLVIII. LACTARIUS Fr.
(From the milky juice ; lac, milk.)
Hymenophore confluent and homogeneous with the stem. Veil
more or less obsolete, present in the ragged-appendiculate or
pubescent margin of the pileus in some species and in the gluten of
others. Pileus fleshy, somewhat rigid, the texture floccose or vesci-
culose, not fibrous, often zoned, margin at first involute, milky. Stem
usually central, not corticate, exannulate, milky. Gills adnato-
decurrent, adnate in 1256, 1264, 1270, 1290 and 1302, often branched,
unequal, membranous-waxy, subrigid, edge acute, trama vesiculose,
milky. Spores subglobose, minutely echinulate, white, rarely
yellowish. (Fig. 62.)
Every part of the plant contains numerous anastomosing
lactiferous cells filled with densely granular latex or milk which
is usually white, but in some instances the colour changes on exposure
to the air ■ in a few cases the milk is coloured before its escape from
the cells ; it varies in taste from mild to intensely acrid, and is of a
resmou^s „gg^^gst allies
are found in Russula, which has no latex. Some are edible, others
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or “ goats” ; the acrid species are called “peperone and poivre
The sclerotia and perfect plants of 248 sometimes grow from the
sills of Lactarii Spharonema vitrewn (Spheeropydea) frequent y
The „on.d
shorum occurs on Lactarius. ¡’P®®’®® .
P i p e r i t e s . Stem central. Gills not changing colour, not pruinose.
Milk white, usually acrid.
Tricholomoidece. Pileus viscid when moist; “ ^ rgm ^ fir st
involute and tomentose.
b. Limaance. Pileus viscid when moist, P®ft‘®®’°®®^5^ ^ j|g J
usually naked. .
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D „ .™ , Ä . ce„ml. C ia nahed. M.lk f » . the « » d e e p ly
coloured.
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