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compressed, sometimes sulcate, tinged with same color as pilens. 

 SPORES subglobose, slightly echinulate, white, 6.5-S micr. MILK 

 white, unchanging, sometimes slightly changed on flesh, acrid. 

 ODOR none. 



Gregarious or scattered. On the ground or much decayed wood 

 in forests of hemlock and pine or in cedar swamps. New Richmond. 

 August-September. Frequent locally. 



This is one of our smallest Lactarii. The umber color of cap and 

 stem, and the peculiar dingy-greenish tints assumed by the wounded 

 gills characterize it. It closely approaches L. varius. 



90. Lactarius varius Pk. 

 N. Y. State Mu's. Rep. 38. 



PILE US 3-6 cm. broad, convex then plane and depressed, grayish- 

 buff or darker, with tinge of lilac, dry, micaceous-shviing, azonate 

 or slightly zonate on margin. Flesh thin, white. GILLS adnate- 

 subdecurrent, close, narrow, subventricose, whitish to cream-colored, 

 stained dingy greenish-brown where bruised. STEM 2-5 cm. long,. 

 4-6 mm. thick, equal, glabrous, firm, spongy-stuffed, concolor or 

 paler. SPORES globose, white, 7-8 micr. MILK white, unchanging,, 

 slowly acrid. ODOR none. 



Gregarious. On the ground in mixed woods. Marquette. August. 



This species is very close to the preceding. It is known by its 

 pale colors both when fresh and in herbarium specimens. It was 

 found only in the Northern Peninsula. 



Section VIII. Pileus glabrous or pruinose velvety, dry; taste 

 mild. 



91. Lactarius volemus Fr. (Edible) 



Syst. Myc, 1821. 



Illustrations: Fries, Sverig. Svamp., PI. 10. 

 Cooke, 111., PL 999. 



Gillet, Champignons de France, No. 402. 

 Bresadola, Fungh. mang. e. vel., PI. 66. 

 Ricken, Blatterpilze, PL 14, Fig. 3. 

 Patouillard, Tab. Analyt., No. 323. 

 Peck, N. Y. State Mus. Rep. 48, PL 30. 

 White, Conn. Geol. & Nat. Hist. Surv., Bull. 3, PL 10. 



