86 LACTARIAE ОЕ THE UNITED STATES 
Gillet considered Agaricus azonites Bull. pl. 559 to be the type 7 
of a distinct species from Lactaria fuliginosa Fr. and accordingly 
described a Lactarius azonites based on that plate as the type. 
53. Lacraria Sumstiner Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 32: 78. | 
1905. [As Lactarius] 1 
Pileus fleshy, rather thin, firm, convex, soon depressed іп the cen- | 
ter, grayish to putty-colored ( 37 7), azonate, dry, glabrous, smooth, 
or with wrinkles radiating from the center, 2.5-7.5 cm. broad, margin | 
involute, then arched or spreading ; gills colored like the pileus, 
distant, thin, decurrent, 1 cm. or more broad; stem colored like 
the pileus, nearly equal, rather firm, dry, glabrous, 2.5-5 cm. long, | 
6-12 mm. thick ; flesh whitish, not discolored with the milk; spores | 
yellow, globular, echinulate, 7.5-10 м; latex white, unchanging, С 
and not staining the flesh or gills, acrid. 4 
Нав.: “ Grassy places in open woods.” Іп deciduous woods. | 
July and August. 2 
Пізтків.: Pennsylvania, Swmstine (type); District of Columbia, | 
Murrill 1476 and 1523; Virginia, Murrill 1682; Missouri, Glat- | 
ЕЙ ғ 1077. 
DISTINGUISHING FIELD-MARKS: Тһе grayish or yellowish-gray 
pinkish or salmon as іп Z. plinthori/a. It differs from Z. Gerardi 
in its paler color, its yellow spores, in the gills being of the same 
color as the pileus, and in the acrid taste of the latex. 
The type specimens are in the herbarium of the Carnegie. 2 
Museum at Pittsburg, Pa., and in the herbarium of the N. Y. St. 
Museum at Albany. 
54. LACTARIA LIGNIOTA | Monogr. 2: 177. 1863. [As 
La t rius] 
Lactarius fuliginosus majo | picr. 348. 1838. 
Lactariella ligniota Schrii à Cohn, Krypt.-Fl. Schles. 3: 544 
1880. ) 
Pileus fleshy, convex, | plane to slightly depressed, umbo- 
nate, often wrinkled in the © =v, dark-brown, azonate, dry, РИ 
nose-velvety, 3-8 cm. bro. от sometimes plicate ; gills WA? 
to ochraceous, becominy or salmon where wounded, p 
crowded, of various lengths, с urrent, about 5 mm. broad ; 5 
