LACTARIAE OF THE: UNITED STATES 93 
ing or uplifted ; gills whitish to cream-colored or yellowish-buff, not 
discoloring where injured, not forking, distant, sometimes con- 
nected by rugose elevations, adnate to slightly decurrent, about 3 
mm. broad; stem of the same color as the pileus, nearly equal, 
glabrous or pruinose, stuffed or solid, 2-5 cm. long, 0.5-1.5 cm. 
thick; flesh whitish, no odor ; spores white, globose to broadly 
elliptical, minutely echinulate, 8-10; latex white, unchanging, 
not staining the gills or flesh brownish, mild, not so abundant as 
in Г. lactifiua (L.). Edible. 
Нав.: Mixed woods. July, August, and September. 
Distris.: Maine, Sprague (type collection); New York, 
Peck, Underwood, Earle; Massachusetts, Francis ; Connecticut, 
Earle 940; Delaware, Jackson; District of Columbia, Murrill 
1487 ; Indiana, С. И. Wilson ; Missouri, Glatfe/ter ; Mississippi, 
Earle 
Itrusr.: Peck, Mem. М. Y. St. Mus. 3: e 53. f. 7-11. 
DISTINGUISHING FIELD-MARKS: The yellowish-buff or fulvous 
color of the plant, the pruinose-velvety covering of the pileus, 
the usually short stem, the distant gills, which do not stain brown 
where injured or in drying, and the white, mild latex. 
type specimens of Lactaria hygrophoroides are іп the 
herbarium of Harvard University and also of the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Kew, England. They are по. 6194 of Curtis's fungi. 
_ Specimens of Lactarius distans Peck from the herbarium of the 
N. Y. Botanical Garden, ло. 940, were sent to Kew Gardens for 
comparison with the type specimens of L. hygrophoroides and were 
pronounced by Mr. Massee to agree with the type. 
бо. Т.АСТАВТА ІСНОКАТА (Batsch) Fr. Epicr. 345. 1838. [Аз 
Lactarius.] — Hennings, in Eng. & Prantl, Nat. Pflan 
zenfam. 1'** : 274. 1898 
Agaricus ichoratus Batsch, Elench. Fung. 38. 1783. 
Pileus fleshy, rather thin but opaque, rigid, then lax, plane to 
depressed in ie center, fulvous, sometimes brown in the center, 
zoned with testaceous, dry, glabrous, smooth, 5-8 cm. broad, 
margin incurved, then. spreading ; gills white, ‘then ochraceous, 
