Lactarius allardii Coker.
Cap 6-15cm across, convex-depressed with an incurved margin, becoming broadly vase-shaped in age; light grayish pink, pinkish buff, or pale brick red, paler on the margin; dry, felty-velvety at first. Gills adnate to decurrent, close to subdistant, narrow; white to ivory to light buff, staining dull greenish to olive and becoming dingy brown where bruised. Stem 20-40x 10-30mm, hollow; white, then becoming same color as cap; hard. Flesh firm, thick on the disc; white, becoming pinky with a lavender tinge then olivaceous on exposure. Latex white, turning grayish olive then brown, plentiful, viscous. Odor mild, or strong in age. Taste acrid and disagreeable. Spores ellipsoid to subglobose, 8-10 x 5.5-8µ; many isolated warts, prominences 0.1-0.2µ high. Deposit white to yellowish. Habitat on soil in deciduous or mixed deciduous or coniferous woods. Found in central and eastern North America. Season July-October. Not edible.