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EDIBLE AND POISONOUS MUSHROOMS OF CANADA<br />
flocculose-silky, soon glabrous, margin at first inrolled. flesh thin, rather soft,<br />
whitish, tinged pink, odor none, latex white, unchanging, very acrid, lamel-<br />
lae sHghtly decurrent, close, narrow, ochraceous, becoming rufous, sometimes<br />
forked, stipe 2-3 V2 ^^' long» Va-Vi<br />
^^- thick, equal, dry, glabrous to pruinose<br />
or hairy at the base, colored like the pileus or paler, stuffed, then hollow.<br />
SPORES broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, white 7-9 X 5-7 n, ornamented with<br />
fairly heavy bands forming a nearly complete reticulum, some separate warts<br />
and short ridges.<br />
On the ground in conifer woods, especially in spruce bogs. July-Sept.<br />
Reported to be poisonous. It can be confused with L. subdulcis but is<br />
usually larger and more strongly acrid.<br />
LACTARIUS SCROBICULATUS (Scop, ex Fr.) Fr. Poisonous<br />
Figure 74, page 45<br />
PILEUS 2-6 in. broad, at first convex, becoming depressed to infundibuli-<br />
form, pale yellow to ochraceous yellow, sometimes reddish yellow, varying<br />
from azonate to conspicuously zonate, viscid, more or less tomentose espe-<br />
cially toward the margin, becoming glabrous or nearly so in old specimens,<br />
margin at first inrolled, then spreading, flesh firm, white becoming yellow<br />
when wounded, latex white, changing quickly to sulphur-yellow, acrid.<br />
lamellae adnate to shghtly decurrent, crowded, rather narrow, sometimes<br />
forking near the stipe, whitish or yellowish, stipe 1-3 in. long, J^-1 in. thick,<br />
equal, glabrous, colored like the pileus or paler, with brighter colored, depressed<br />
spots, hollow. SPORES white, broadly elHpsoid to subglobose, 7-9 X<br />
6-7.5 ju, ornamented with a few heavy bands forming a wide, broken reticulum<br />
with separate warts or short ridges in the spaces.<br />
In groups on the ground in moist woods, usually in coniferous woods.<br />
Aug.-Sept.<br />
The most distinctive characters of this species are the hairy margin and<br />
the prominent depressed spots on the stipe. It is not common but is a striking<br />
species when found.<br />
LACTARIUS SUBDULCIS (Bull, ex Fr.) Gray Edible<br />
Figure 80, page 47<br />
PILEUS %-2 in. broad, at first convex, becoming depressed to infundi-<br />
buliform, often papillate, brownish red to pale tan or reddish fulvous, not<br />
fading, dry, glabrous, not zoned, margin at first inrolled, then spreading.<br />
FLESH firm, whitish or tinged fulvous, odor none, latex white, unchanging,<br />
mild or slowly becoming acrid to bitterish, lamellae adnate to decurrent,<br />
sometimes forked, close, rather narrow, whitish to yellowish flesh color or<br />
stained fulvous, stipe 1-2% in. long, Vg-/^ in. thick, equal or sHghtly tapering<br />
upward, glabrous or pubescent toward the base, colored like the pileus or<br />
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