The stem is short, equal or tapering downward, solid, pruinose, colored like the pileus.
The spores are subglobose, 9–11µ broad. Peck, N. Y. Report, 52.
I frequently mistake this plant for L. volemus when seen growing in the ground, but the widely separated gills distinguish the plant as soon as it is gathered. The stem is short and round, tapering downward, solid, colored like the pileus. The milk is both white and mild. I find it on nearly every wooded hillside about Chillicothe. It is found from July to September.
Lactarius atroviridus. Pk.
The Dark-Green Lactarius.
Figure 139.—Lactarius atroviridus. Cap and stem dark green. Cap depressed in center. Gills white.
Atroviridus is from ater, black; viridus, green; so called from the color of the cap and the stem of the plant.
The pileus is convex, plane, then depressed in the center, with an adherent pellicle, greenish with darker scales, margin involute.