Lactarius subvernalis var. cokeri Smith & Hesler. Cap 3-6cm across, broadly convex, sometimes with a small central papilla, becoming flatter or shallowly depressed in age, with the margin often arched or lobed and wavy; whitish soon tinged with buff, sometimes pale smoky brown; dry and unpolished or with a bloom, becoming naked and minutely wrinkled around the disc. Gills broadly adnate to short decurrent, crowded, narrow; whitish to pinkish buff, spotted pinkish where injured. Stem 50-70 x 8-15mm, stuffed, but becoming hollow in age; whitish, becoming dingy in age, staining pinkish where bruised; covered in a whitish bloom when young. Flesh thickish; white bruising pink. Latex white, unchanging, staining gills and flesh pinkish on cut or bruised surfaces. Odor mild. Taste bitter. Spores globose, 7-8 x 7-8µ; ornamented with an almost complete reticulum of ridges and lines, prominences 0.6-1.5µ. high. Deposit yellowish. Habitat scattered or in groups under hardwoods. Sometimes quite common. Found in eastern North America. Season July-October. Edibility not known but probably too bitter to eat- avoid.