80 LACTARIAE ОЕ THE UNITED STATES 
L. rufula is so closely related to it as possibly to prove to be 
only a form. The type specimens аге in the herbarium of the №. 
Y. State Museum at Albany, and the above description has been 
arranged from them and the original description. 
XIV. GRISEAE 
Plants rather small, varying in color from ash-gray to nearly 
black ; pileus dry and covered with a short tomentum or merely 
squamulose ; latex white, unchanging, and slowly acrid. 
Synopsis of species 
Pileus 2.5-5 cm. broad in mature plant, ash-gray to brownish-gray. 
Azonate, stem glabrous, 
Minutely squamulose or unpolished, aromatic. бо. L. glyctosma. 
Minutely tomentose, no odor. 48. Г. grisea. 
Zonate, stem white-tomentulose. . L. Hibbardae. 
Pileus not over 15 mm. broad in mature plant, blue-black, then 
zoned with slate-gray or finally with snuff-brown, scabrous- 
pubescent. 
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49. L. Bensleyae. 
FIGURE 14. Lactaria grisea Peck. No. 85, 1907, Burlingham. 
48. Lacraria GRISEA Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. St. Mus. 23: 119 
1873 (separate, 1872). [As Lactarius.] — Hennings, 
in Eng. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 
E406 T1898 
Pileus fleshy, rather thin, firm at first, then lax, broadly convex 
papillate, then depressed in the center, or at length infundibuliform, 
with or without papilla, varying from slate-gray (362) to smoke- 
