Lactaria lividorubescens

Lactaria lividorubescens (Batsch) Burl. Mem. Torrey
Club 14 : 49. 1908.
Agaricus lividorubescens Batsch, Elench. Fung. Contin. 2 : 51. 1789.
Agaricus uvidus Fries, Obs. Myc. 2 : 191. 1818.
Lactaria uvida Fries, Epicr. Myc. 338. 1838.
Lactaria livesce^is Pass. Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. 4 : 105. 1872.
Pileus fleshy, rather thin, convex, then plane to depressed, often umbonate, 4-8 cm. broad ; surface cinereous or brownish-gray, tinged with lilac, often faintly spotted and zonate especially when young, viscid, glabrous; margin involute at first, then spreading except the extreme edge which remains inrolled for some time and is at first white-pruinose to minutely downy: context firm then more lax, white, changing to lilac where wounded; latex white, changing to dark-lilac or violet where in contact with the flesh, acrid, sometimes bitter ; lamellae white to cream, quickly changing to lilac then violet when wounded, sometimes a few forking next the stipe, close, thin, of various lengths, adnate to slightly decurrent, up to 5 mm. broad ; stipe white to cream, not spotted or only obscurely so, equal or tapering upwards, a little viscid when moist, glabrous, sometimes tomentose at the base, stuffed becoming hollow, 4-8 cm. long, 6-12 mm. thick : spores white, elliptic, echinulate, 7X8-12/^.
Type locality : Jena, Germany.
Habitat : On the ground in woods, in moist places.
Distribution : Eastern United States from Maine to Maryland ; also in Europe.