66 LACTARIAE ОЕ THE UNITED STATES 
38. LACTARIA PALUDINELLA Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. St. Mus. 38: І 
133. 1885. [As Lactarius.] — Hennings, in Eng. & 
Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 1'**: 214. 1808 
Pileus fleshy, thin, convex, then plane-umbilicate to depressed | 
їп the center, sometimes with a small umbo, brownish-drab ( 302. 
t. 2) to dark-fawn ( 307),* expallent, slightly viscid when wet, | 
glabrous, 12 mm. to 4 cm. broad, margin at length slightly stri- 
ate ; gills white to cream-colored, becoming darker with age, pruin- | 
ose, many forking near the stem, close, adnate or slightly decur- 
rent, thin, up to 4 mm. broad ; stem of the same color as the pileus 
or paler, nearly equal, glabrous, except at the base, which Б 
slightly villose when growing in moss, stuffed, sometimes hollow, | 
2-3 cm. long, 3-4 mm. thick ; flesh white, or tinted with the color aT 
of the surface; spores white, subglobose, echinulate, 6.5-8.5 № 
latex white, unchanging, mild. 
Нав.: In marshy places іп woods, іп Sphagnum, or in decay- 
ing leaves. August. 3 
Пізтків.: New York, Peck ; Vermont, Burlingham ; North 
Carolina, Burlingham 82, 1907. 
-DISTINGUISHING FIELD-MARKS: The sordid-brown color or 
mixture of brownish-drab and yellow-brown, which gives the 
pileus a mottled, streaked, and subzonate appearance, and | 
striatulate margin. The species is small and is rendered inc 
spicuous by its dusky coloring. It occurs only in densely shad 
places. 
' DOUBTFUL SPECIES 
LACTARIA PALLIDA Pers, Tent. Disp. Meth. Fung. 64. 1797: 
This species has been reported from Rhode Island by Bennett 
Connecticut by White, and Minnesota by Johnson. I have seen 
Hanmer's zo. 1399, which was cited as pallida by White, and it 
is not that species, but a pale form of Z. lactifiua (L.). The plants 
from which the other determinations were made are not available 
for examination, and there is a reasonable doubt whether Z. pallida 
occurs within the United States. It is edible. 
ХІ. CiNEREAE | 
Pileus more viscid than іп the Quietae, of some shade of ore 
perfectly glabrous, flesh lax and thin, plants rather fragile ; gilis 
becoming darker with age and pruinose ; latex soon acrid. 
GE 
* A. yellowish-brown color, not fulvous. 
