Lactarius thyinos Smith. Cap 3-9cm across, convex with the disc soon becoming depressed, and then broadly funnel-shaped; carrot orange to salmon orange with concentric zones, weathering grayish in age; sticky then thinly slimy, smooth. Gills broadly adnate to decurrent, close becoming subdistant in age; bright orange becoming paler, with bruised areas staining dull red. Stem 40-80 x 8-20mm, hollow, fragile; same color as gills or paler, staining dull red where cut; often with a whitish sheen above. Flesh thin; orange-buff when cut or dull red at base of stem. Latex cadmium orange slowly staining dull red. Odor faintly fragrant. Taste mild. Spores subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, amyloid, 9-12 x 7.5-9μ; ornamented with a partial or broken reticulum and some isolated warts, prominences 0.5-0.7μ high. Deposit pale yellow. Habitat scattered or in groups in woods of thuja evergreens and in bogs and swamps. Common. Found widely distributed in northeastern North America. Season July-October. Edible. (Never eat any mushroom until you are certain it is edible as many are poisonous and some are deadly poisonous.)