Spores reddish, becoming dingy brown. Broadly pyriforme 6×8µ Massee.
Pennsylvania. September, 1894. McIlvaine. Albion, N.Y., Dr. Cushing, 1898.
On ground in woods and margins of woods.
Flesh white. Gills narrow, crowded, brittle, decurrent, dingy-white or pale-buff, easily separating from cap. Stem solid, elastic, at length hollow, often short, an inch long, tapering downward, frequently up to four inches in length and equal, base villose.
Resembling Lactarius piperatus and some forms of Clitocybe. It is separated from the former by the absence of milk and from the latter by its involute margin. The Clitocybe resembling it are all edible.
Smell strong, like old oily nuts. Edible but coarse.
P. li´vidus Cke. Pileus 1–2 in. across, convex, at length slightly depressed at the disk, margin slightly arched and incurved, dingy-white, or livid ochraceous, opaque. Gills decurrent, arcuate, almost crowded, 1½ line broad, white. Stem 3–4 in. long, ½ in. thick at the apex, attenuated downward, white, fibrillose, stuffed then hollow, usually rather flexuous. Flesh nearly white. Spores globose, 3–3.5µ diameter, nearly white.
In woods. Usually in small clusters. Closely allied to Paxillus revolutus, but distinguished by the absence of any tinge of violet on the pileus or stem, and by the persistently white gills. Massee.
Received from Katherine A. Hall, Danville, N.Y. October, 1898.
Raw it tastes like a drug-store smell. Edible, pleasant.