Lactarius hygrophoroides Berk. & Curt. Cap 3-10cm across, convex with a depressed center, becoming flatter and sometimes funnel-shaped, with an incurved then spreading margin; orangy brown to reddish brown; dry and velvety, becoming wrinkled in age. Gills adnate-subdecurrent, distant, broad; white becoming cream or pale yellowy fawn. Stem 30-50 x 5-15mm, stuffed or solid; same color as cap or paler; dry with a white bloom. Flesh firm; white. Latex white, plentiful, unchanging, not staining. Odor mild. Taste mild. Spores ellipsoid, amyloid, 7.5-9.5 x 6-7.5μ; ornamented with small warts connected by fine lines sometimes forming a broken reticulum, prominences 0.2-0.4µ high. Deposit white. Habitat singly or scattered on soil in deciduous woods. Found widely distributed in eastern North America. Season June-September. Edible – excellent (Never eat any mushroom until you are certain it is edible as many are poisonous and some are deadly poisonous.)