1918'\ The Lactaeias of E^oeth Carolina 3 



2. Milk bitterish, then moderately acrid, smell 



pungent L.theiogalus (29) 



2. Milk decidedly acrid 3 



3. Cap light yellow with spotted zones L. chrysorheus (30) 



3. Cap deep yellow, zones faint and unspotted. .. .L. crocetts (23) 



3. Cap maize-yellow with salmon tint, zones faint. .L. delicatus (24) 



C. Milk white at first, then turning lilac or heliotrope. L. speciosus (22) 



D. Milk or flesh white at first, then turning salmon or 



reddish or pink 1 



1. Cap smooth (minutely pruinose when young).. 3 



1. Cap velvety L. Ugniotus (41) 



1. Cap margin coarsely felted tomentose 2 



2. Milk acrid L. torminosus ( 9 ) 



2. Milk mild L. subtorminosus (10) 



3. Gills not very distant, stem becoming hollow. . .L. plinthogalus (39) 



3. Gills very distant, stem solid L. suhpUnthogalus (40) 



E. Milk white, then turning slowly to a deep brown. .L. luteolus (46) 



F. Milk or flesh white, then turning (sometimes quite 



slowly) to greenish or olive, or greenish-brown, 

 or greenish-blue, or greenish-cream 1 



1. Cap white, smooth, gills very much crowded. .. JL. pergamenus (2) 



1. Cap white (at times with faint lilac or cream 

 tints), velvety, tomentose, gills moderately 

 crowded, flesh turning light greemsh-CTeam. .L. suivellereus 



Form A (4a) 



1. Cap minutely velvety, reddish or pinkish-cinna- 

 mon or in part whitish, gills not crowded L. Allardii (5) 



1. Cap greenish L. atroviridis (8) 



1. Cap an earthy-gray-brown color, milk becoming 



greenish L. rusticanus ( 7 ) 



1. Cap yellowish-ochraceous, gills many times 



forked L.fiircatus (11) 



1. Cap sepia in center, light on margin, milk dry- 

 ing blue-greenish gray L. mucidus (17) 



G. Milk white, or watery white, or light cream color, 



unchanging 1 



1. Milk bitterish, slightly or not at all acrid 2 



1. Milk quite mildi. not bitterish or acrid 4 



1. Milk barely acrid, not bitterish 3 



1. Milk moderately or decidedly acrid (also bitter- 



ish in some cases) 12 



2. Cap and stem tomentose Tj. hinuginosus (20) 



2. Cap and stem smooth (base of stem may be 



fibrous), margin not striate or faintly so L. subdulcis (50) 



3. Surface velvety L. Gerardii (42) 



3. Surface glabrous L. subduhis (50) 



