70 LACTARIAE ОЕ THE UNITED STATES 
Pileus fleshy, firm and rather thick at first, then thinner and 
more lax, convex, sometimes with a small umbo, sometimes slightly 
umbilicate, then plane to depressed, incarnate-isabelline to yellow- 
ish-salmon (65. 2. 1—4) or reddish-terra-cotta (гоо) to fulvous, more 
or less zonate, occasionally much paler and nearly or quite azonate, 
viscid when wet, glossy when dry, glabrous, 5—8 cm. broad, mar- 
gin inrolled at first, and pruinose to very minutely pruinose-downy 
on the extreme edge ; lamellae whitish to yellowish, reddish-brown 
FIGURE 12. Lactaria theiogala ( Bull.) Fr. 
i . hy 
No. 44, 1907, Burlingnam. 
when old or when injured, some forking near the stem, close, ad- 
nate or a little decurrent, up to 4 mm. broad; stem colored like 
the pileus or paler, sometimes faintly spotted, glabrous except 4 
the base, which is often slightly tomentose, smooth, full and rather 
firm, at length hollow, 3-7 cm. long, 7-13 mm. thick ; flesh white, 
becoming yellow from the latex, odor pungent, disappearing ™ 
drying ; spores whitish, minutely echinulate, subglobose to broadly 
elliptical, 6-7 их 8—9 м, latex white, changing to sulphur-yellow, 
bitterish then acrid. Suspicious, : 12. 
Нав.: In botl 
or in oak woods. 
(FIGURE 12. 
1 dry and moist woods, under spruce and fir tree 
August and September. 
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DISTRIB. : New Y ork, Peck, Earle, Burlingham ; Maine, Whites 
