LACTARIAE OF THE UNITED STATES 73 
The type specimens which are in the herbarium of the N. Y. 
State Museum at Albany are those taken by Atkinson at Port 
Jefferson, L. I. The description does not indicate whether the 
pileus is viscid or dry in wet weather, but the relationship seems 
to be with Г. thetoga/a (Bull.) Fr. 
42. LACTARIA CHRYSORHEA Fr. Epicr. 342. 1838. [As Lacta- 
rius. |— Schrót. in Cohn, Krypt.-Fl. Schles. 3: 541. 1880 
Pileus fleshy, firm, rather thick, convex-umbilicate, then infun- 
dibuliform, whitish to yellowish tinged with flesh color, usually 
zoned with golden-yellow or pale-orange, slightly viscid when 
moist, glabrous, 2.5-10 cm. broad, margin involute at first and 
covered with a minute down, then spreading and naked; gills 
white then yellowish, some forking, close, adnate to slightly de- 
current, thin; stem white, then colored like the pileus, sometimes 
with bright-colored spots, pruinose, glabrous except at the base, 
which is more or less villose, stuffed, then hollow, 2.5-8 cm. long, 
6-15 mm. thick; flesh white, becoming yellow where injured ; 
spores white, subglobose, minutely echinulate, 7-8 и; milk white, 
Te golden-yellow, very à 
: Mixed woods or groves. Ligne and September. 
pits : New York, Peck; North Carolina, Atkinson, Bur- 
lingham 100, 1907, 1000 meters. 
Плозт.: Atkinson, Stud. Am. Fungi, f. 722; Cooke, Br. Fungi, 
2. 984; Gillet, Champ. Fr. ai 50 (751; 379]; Hahn, Der Pilz- 
Sammler, 5. f. 20; Krombh. Abbild. A. 12. f. 7-14; Lucand, 
Champ. Fr. pl. 5. 
DISTINGUISHING FIELD-MARKS: The white to yellowish color 
of the plant, the indistinct zones which are made up of brighter- 
colored spots concentrically arranged, and the acrid milk. The 
zones and spots become more prominent with age and in drying, 
and while the zones may be nearly lacking in the fresh plant, they 
may be conspicuous in the dried specimen. The species is ap- 
parently closely related to Г. theioga/a Fr., from which it is readily 
distinguished by the brighter, yellow tones, the spotted character 
of the zones, the absence of odor in the fresh plant, and the acrid 
milk, 
This species is classed by Saccardo with the Реғай, but it 
seems to me to belong rather with Russu/aria on account of its 
slightly viscid pileus and the changing color of the gills. If the 
