Lactarius griseus Pk. Cap 1.5-5cm across, convex quickly becoming deeply depressed or funnel-shaped with a papilla; gray-brown, with the reddish or pinky-brown depression becoming paler with age and then more ochraceous; dry and covered in the middle with small scales. Gills adnate to decurrent, close to subdistant, medium broad, numerous; white becoming yellowish. Stem 20-65 x 36mm, fragile, hollow, tapering slightly toward the top; pale to grayish, with the top the same color as the gills; stiff, rough, white hairs at base. Flesh thin; white to yellowish. Latex white, scanty; dries yellowish in droplets and stains white paper yellow, gills not staining. Odor slight. Taste slowly, slightly acrid or mild in mature specimens. Spores subglobose to ellipsoid, amyloid, 7-8 x 6-71µ ornamented with warts and ridges, no reticulum, prominences up to 1µ high. Deposit yellowish. Habitat scattered or in groups on moss, humus, decaying logs, sometimes in sphagnum bogs, and under conifers. Common. Widely distributed in eastern North America. Season June-October. Not edible.