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Pileus fleshy, lax, thin, convex, subumbonate, then expanding, 
umbilicate to infundibuliform, incarnate, or livid-gray, fading to 
grayish, azonate, viscid when wet, finely silky when dry, 4-6 cm. 
broad, margin even, involute at first, then arched to uplifted ; gills 
white then yellowish, thin, close, somewhat decurrent, 2 mm. broad; 
stem of the same color as the pileus, equal or tapering upwards, 
glabrous, dry, stuffed, becoming hollow, 5-8 cm. long, 4-6 mm 
thick; flesh whitish, odor faint, but somewhat pungent; spores 8 
и, nearly globose, minutely echinulate ; latex white, becoming gray, 
mild, then acrid. : 
Нав.: Damp woods. 
Пловт.: Britz. Lact. f. 21; Cooke, Br. Fungi, a 1000; 
Fries, Icon. А 170. f. т; Gillet, Champ. Fr. ai 167. [gor] ; 
Lucand, Champ. Fr. 2/. 96. 
Exsic. : Sydow, Mycotheca Marchica 2727. 
ХП. THEIOGALAE 
Pileus slightly viscid when moist, soon dry, glabrous, margin 
naked or minutely pruinose-downy in the young plant when viewed 
with a lens, whitish to isabelline or fulvous or pinkish-buff; flesh 
rather thick and firm at first, then thinner and lax ; gills becoming 
darker with age, and more or less ргиіпове; latex bitter or acrid, 
white, becoming yellow. 
Synopsis of species 
Latex very acrid, becoming golden-yellow. 
Latex mild, bitterish,'then acrid, becoming sulphur-yellow. 
Pileus whitish, entire plant becoming brownish-red 
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. L. chrysorhea. 
wit e, azonate. 41. L. colorascens. 
Pileus pinkish-buff to reddish terra-cotta or 
vous, zonate. 40. 
f L. theiogal 
Pileus pallid, azonate. 40. 
gala. 
L. theiogala brevis. 
40. LacTARIA THEIOGALA (Bull) Fr. Epicr. 342. 1838. [As 
Lactarius.] — Schrót. in Cohn, Krypt.-Fl. Schles. 
3: $44. 1889 
Agaricus theiogalus Bull. Herb. Fr. ai 667. f. 2. 1793; Hist. І: 
1809. 
Hypophyllum lateritium Paulet; Paulet & Léveillé, Icon. Champ. 
59.: 1855. | 
Lactarius brevipes Longyear, Rep. Mich. Acad. Sci. 3: 59. 1901. 
Lactarius brevis Peck, Bull. М. Ү. St. Миз. 04: 33. 1905. 
Lactarius xanthogalactus Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 34: 346. 1907. 
