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Stem about 5-8 cm. long, usually, and 1.5-2 cm. thick, firm, hollow, 

 color of cap, smooth, equal. Not rarely the stem is lateral and very 

 short. 



Spores warted and ridged, cream colored in mass, 5.6-6.7 x 7.8-8.2/^. 



This species is edible, but is so coarse and so lacking in savor as to 

 be of little value. While not abundant, it is not rare in summer and 

 autumn. 



111. Battle's Park, in woods just above Green Bench Spring. October 2, 1909. 



112. Top of Lone Pine Hill, Glen Burnie Farm, September 19, 1908. 

 606. Near Meeting of the Waters, October 22, 1912. 



742. Woods near branch east of Meeting of the Waters, September 13, 1913. 



Photo. 

 816. Woods above Howell's Spring, September 16, 1913. 

 1172. By path along branches north and west of Meeting of the Waters, July 



24, 1914. 

 1345. In woods by branch 100 yards west of Meeting of the Waters, October 



14, 1914. Photo. Spores subspherical to elliptic, tuberculate, a 



large oil drop, 5.1-6.4 x 6.4-8.5^. 

 1365. Battle's Park, woods northwest of Brockwell's Spring, October 16, 1914. 

 1369. In thick woods, hillside northwest of barn, Glen Burnie Farm, October 



17, 1914. Photo. 



Common in w^oods. Curtis. 

 Blowing Rock. Atkinson. 

 Asheville. Beardslee. 



29. Lactarius theiogalus (Bull.) Fr. 



Plate 24. 



Cap depressed in center, almost infundibuliform, up to 9.5 cm. 

 wide, in youth pruinose, quite smooth everywhere at maturity, or the 

 center more or less pitted and roughened, viscid, pale creamy buff 

 color with ochraceous and pinkish stains, very faintly or not at all 

 zonate; margin nearly plane, often crenated and lobed. Flesh firm, 

 then softer, white, turning a clear yellow with greenish tints w^ien cut 

 and after a time a deeper orange yellow, bitter and then mildly acrid ; 

 order perfumed-pungent when broken. In age when the milk dis- 

 appears the flesh becomes a light flesh color and does not change when 

 cut. Milk white, then deep yellow, bitterish, then moderately acrid. 



