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EDIBLE AND POISONOUS MUSHROOMS OF CANADA
rather common species and will often be found by the collector. The gray
color, small size, and tomentose pileus distinguish it.
LACTARIUS HELVUS (Fr.) Fr.
Figure 61, page 27
PILEUS 1-4 in. broad, rather fragile, convex at first, becoming plane to
depressed, sometimes slightly umbonate, tawny gray, fading to pale tan, dry,
minutely floccose-fibrillose, not zoned, margin at first inrolled, then spreading.
FLESH watery whitish, odor strong, fragrant and aromatic, especially noticeable
and persistent on drying, latex watery to whitish, unchanging, mild or very
sHghtly acrid, lamellae sHghtly decurrent, close, narrow, whitish, then
yellowish flesh color, stipe 1 1/2-3 in. long, or sometimes longer, Y^-Yz in. thick,
equal, pruinose above to finely hairy at base, concolorous with the pileus,
stuffed, then hollow, spores broadly eUipsoid to subglobose, 6-8.5 X 5-6 )u,
ornamented with a broken reticulum of bands and ridges or fine fines, a few
separate warts.
On the ground or in sphagnum, usually in swampy woods. Aug.-Sept.
This is a rather common species. It is remarkable for the strong odor,
which is very pronounced in dried specimens and persists for a long time. Its
edible qualities are not known.
LACTARIUS HYGROPHOROIDES B. & C. Edible
Figure 62, page 27
PILEUS 1-3 in. broad, rather firm and brittle, at first convex to plane,
slightly depressed in the center, then becoming deeply depressed to somewhat
funnel-shaped, tawny reddish to yellowish, surface dry, pruinose-velvety,
smooth to more or less rugose, margin inrolled, then spreading, flesh rather
thin, whitish, odor and taste mild, latex white, unchanging, mild, copious.
LAMELLAE adnatc to sHghtly decurrent, distant, broad, whitish to cream colored.
STIPE %-2 in. long, Y4-Y2 ^^- thick, equal, rather short, minutely velvety to
glabrous, more or less concolorous with the pileus, solid, spores white,
broadly ellipsoid, 8-10 X 6-7.5 ju, ornamented with low warts and ridges,
some separate but mostly joined by fine lines.
Scattered or in groups, usually in deciduous woods. July-Aug.
The bright reddish-brown color and distant lamellae are the principal
distinguishing characters of this species. L. volemus is similar in color but the
lamellae are close.
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Figures 69-78
69. Lactarius necator. 70. L. necator.
71. L. representaneus. 72. L. representaneus.
73. L. resimus. 74. L. scrobiculatus.
75. L. rufus. 76. L. rufus.
77. L. subpurpureus. 78. L. subpurpureus.