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LACTARIUS
9. Pileus yellow; stipe scrobiculate spotted L. scrobiculatus
9. Pileus white; stipe not scrobiculate L. resimus
10. Latex drying greenish or gray-green on the bruised flesh 11
10. Latex not drying greenish 12
11. Spore deposit yellowish L. trivialis
11. Spore deposit white L. mucidus
12. Latex slowly becoming pinkish on the bruised flesh;
pileus dark brown, velvety L. lignyotus
12. Latex causing gray to nearly black stains on the lamellae;
pileus olive-umber L. necator
13. Pileus viscid 14
13. Pileus not viscid 15
14. Pileus glabrous, yellowish L. affinis
14. Pileus tomentose, pinkish L. torminosus
15. Fruiting body with strong, aromatic odor, especially noticeable on drying 16
15. No aromatic odor when fresh or on drying 17
16. Pileus dark brownish red; latex white L. camphoratus
16. Pileus tawny gray to pale tan; latex watery or whey-like L. helvus
17. Taste mild 18
17. Taste acrid 19
18. Pileus glabrous L. subdulcis
18. Pileus pruinose-velvety; gills distant L. hygrophoroides
19. Taste mild at first, sometimes slowly becoming acrid or slightly bitter L. subdulcis
19. Taste definitely acrid 20
20. Pileus glabrous 21
20. Pileus not glabrous 22
21. Pileus ashy gray, darker in center L. cinereus
21. Pileus reddish L. rufus
22. Pileus gray, usually less than XVi inches broad L. griseus
22. Pileus not gray, larger 23
23. Pileus reddish, minutely silky at first, soon glabrous L. rufus
23. Pileus white or whitish 24
24. Pileus with a cottony roll on the margin L. deceptivus
lA. Pileus without a cottony roll on the margin 25
25. Lamellae crowded, becoming pinkish; taste slowly acrid L. controversus
25. Lamellae subdistant, becoming creamy yellowish; taste very acrid L. vellereus
LACTARIUS AFFINIS Peck Not recommended
Figures 54, 55, page 25
PILEUS 2-6 in. broad, fleshy, firm, at first convex-umbilicate, then becom-
ing expanded and depressed in the center, yellowish or ochraceous yellow,
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