Yellow-Juiced Lactarius.
Chrysorrheus from two Greek words; chrysos, yellow or golden; reo, I flow, because the juice soon turns to a golden yellow.
The pileus is rather fleshy, depressed, then funnel-shaped, yellowish-flesh colored, marked with dark zones or spots.
The stem is stuffed, then hollow, equal, or tapering below, paler than the pileus, sometimes pitted.
The gills are decurrent, thin, crowded, yellowish, milk white, then golden-yellow, very acrid.
The milk is white, quite acrid, has a peculiar taste, and changes at once on exposure to a beautiful yellow. This is a common species about Salem, Ohio, and is quite variable in size. Found in woods and groves from July to October. I do not know whether its edible quality has ever been tested. When I found it some years ago I had less faith in mushrooms than I have now.
Lactarius vellereus. Fr.
The Wooly-White Lactarius. Edible.
Vellereus from vellus, a fleece. The pileus is white, compact, fleshy, depressed or convex, tomentose, zoneless, margin at first involute, milk white and acrid.
The gills are white or whitish, distant, forked, adnate or decurrent, connected by veins, bow-shaped, milk scanty.