Toadstools, mushrooms, fungi, edible and poisonous; one thousand American fungi / How to select and cook the edible; how to distinguish and avoid the poisonous, with full botanic descriptions. Toadstool poisons and their treatment, instructions to students, recipes for cooking, etc., etc.

by Charles McIlvaine; Robert K. Macadam

Received from E.B. Sterling, Trenton, N.J., August, 1897.

Open grassy woods.

But three specimens were tested. They were in every way agreeable.

Grouped by F.D. Briscoe—Studies by C. McIlvaine. Plate XLI.

Fig.	Page.	Fig.	Page.
1. Lactarius piperatus,	[168]	3. Lactarius deliciosus,	[170]
2. Lactarius indigo,	[171]	4. Lactarius volemus,	[180]

LACTA´RIUS Fr.

Giving lac (milk).

The hymenophore continuous with the stem. Pileus somewhat rigid, fleshy, becoming more or less depressed, often marked with concentric zones. Gills unequal, membranaceous-waxy, slightly rigid, milky, edge acute, decurrent or adnate and often branched. Stem stout, central, rarely excentric except in those growing on trunks. Spores globose, minutely echinulate, white, rarely yellowish.