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The celandine lactarius is closely related to tin- delicious lactarius, from 

 which it may be separated by its smaller size, shorter stem, paler color, nar- 

 row gills and saffron colored milk. The cap is either broadly convex, nearl) 

 plane or depressed in the center. Sometimes the central depression is small 

 like an umbilicus. The color is grayish yellow or pale tawny, and in some 

 instances there are two or three narrow bands or zones near the margin. 

 When old, its cap becomes bluish green or is marked by bluish green 

 stains. 



The narrow gills are close together and are attached to the stem by their 

 entire breadth or are slightly decurrent. They are at first of a peculiar 

 grayish yellow or dingy cream color, but when old they are generally whit- 

 ish pruinose. In some specimens they are wavy or forked at the inner 

 extremity. The milk is scanty and paler than in the delicious lactarius. It 

 is nearly a saffron color and is mild. 



The stem is short and cylindric or nearly so, glabrous, hollow and colored 

 like the cap. It is sometimes spotted or stained with bluish green when 

 old, but I have not seen it with such permanent depressed colored spots as 

 often adorn the stems of the allied species, L. d e 1 i c i o s u s , L. s u b p u r - 

 pureus and L. indigo. The cap is 2 to 3 inches. broad ; the stem 1 to 

 1.5 inches long, 4 to 6 lines thick. It grows in light, sandy soil under or 

 near pine trees and occurs from July to September. Its edible qualities are 

 similar to those of the delicious lactarius. 



Lactarius distans Pk. 

 Distant gilled Lactarius 



PLATE 53, Jig. 7-1 1 



Pileus firm, broadly convex or nearly plane, umbilicate or slightly 

 depressed in the center, with a minute velvety pruinosity, yellowish tawny 

 or brownish orange ; lamellae rather broad, distant, adnate or slightly decur- 

 rent, white or creamy yellow, the interspaces venose, milk white, mild ; stem 

 short, equal or tapering downward, solid, pruinose, colored like the pileus; 

 spores subglobose, .00035 to -00045 of an inch broad. 



The distant gilled lactarius is similar to the orange lactarius in color, hut 

 in other respects it is quite distinct. The short stem, widely separated gills 



