CLASSIFICATION OP A.GARH 



were sent to Peck who referred them to L. regalis Pk. and Dr. Fisch- 

 ci's photograph of it is bo Darned in Hard's book, li is possible that 

 some of our forms represent /.. zonarhts Ft. which i- Baid to ha 

 Bolid stem, pale orange to yellow .uihns pilens with ;i thinner mar 

 gin. According i<> Fries (Monographia) /.. inmilsus has the habit 

 and size of L. deliciosuB, differing in paler colors, acrid taste ami 

 white unchangeable milk. Cooke's figilre represents our plants 

 well excepl that they may become darker with age. /.. regali 

 referred by Peck to ;i variety of /.. resimus Fr., and i< Baid to he au 

 almost entirely while plant with scarcely noticeable zones, aot at nil 

 related to L. insulsus; iis milk changes to Bnlphnr-yellow. The gills 

 of our form of />. insulsus sometimes become dingj yellowish in 

 or where«bruised, hut the milk is unchangeable. The plants referred 

 to L. insulsus by RIcIlvaine were edible. 



71. Lactarius affinis Pk. 



\. V. State Mus. Rep. 23, 1ST2. 

 Ibid, (as L. platyphyllus Pk.). 



PILEUS G-15 cm. broad, firm, convex-umbilicate then expanded- 

 depressed, pale yellowish to yellowish-mcamate or ochraceous-yel- 

 low, aaonate, viscid, glabrous, even, margin involute a1 firsl spread- 

 ing and arched. FLESH white, moderately thick. GILLS adnate- 

 subdecurrent, broad or moderately broad, close to subdistant, forked 

 toward base, cream y-yelloic-ish. STEM 5-10 cm. long, L-2 cm. thick. 

 equal, glabrous, stuffed then hollow, yellowish to whitish, often 

 spotted. SPORES globose to broadly elliptical, 9 n micr., echinu- 

 late, whitish. MILK white, unchanging, acrid. 



Gregarious. On the ground in mixed or frondose woods. Mar- 

 quette, Ishpeming, South Haven, New Richmond, Detroit. July- 

 September. Rather rare. 



Often a very large plant, whose pale yellow, zoneless cap and 

 broad subdistant -ills sel it apart from others. The whole plant has 

 a tendency to be unicolorous, Bometimes dark, Bometimes paler. 

 Miss Pnrlin.irham states thai the milk sometimes dries to a pale dull 

 green shade on the gills. Whether it is edible is unknown. 



