This plant is sometimes cespitose. The pileus when dry is tawny-gray and scaly or cracked scaly. The margin may be even or coarsely sulcate-striate. The flesh is grayish or reddish-gray. The color of the lamellæ varies from creamy-white to tawny-yellow. The stem often has a conspicuous white myceloid tomentum at its base. I have never found this plant with a white or milky juice, and therefore I am disposed to regard it not as a variety of L. helvus, but as a distinct species. Its mild taste and agreeable odor suggested a trial of its edible qualities. It is harmless, but the lack of flavor induces me to omit it from the list of edible species. _Peck_, 50th Rep. N.Y. State Bot. Var. _brevis´simus_ Pk. Pileus 1–1.5 in. broad, grayish-buff. Gills crowded, adnate, yellowish or cream-color. Stem very short, 6–8 lines long. Black mucky soil in roads in woods. Township 24, Franklin county. September. Plant fragrant; sometimes cespitose. _Peck_, 51st Rep. N.Y. State Bot. Angora, West Philadelphia, in moist oak woods. August, 1897, Philadelphia Myc. Center. Flesh rather hard when cooked, and insipid. Good as an absorbent or in emergency. =L. lignyo´tus= Fr.—_lignum_, wood. =Pileus= 1–4 in. broad, broadly convex plane or slightly depressed, dry, with or without a small umbo, generally rugose-wrinkled, _dark-brown, appearing subpulverulent or as if suffused with a dingy pruinosity_, the margin sometimes crenately lobed and distinctly plicate. =Gills= moderately close or subdistant, adnate, white or yellowish, _slowly changing to pinkish-red or salmon color where wounded_. =Stem= 1–3 in. long, 2–6 lines thick, equal or abruptly narrowed at the apex, even, glabrous, stuffed, colored like the pileus, sometimes plicate at the top. =Milk= white, taste mild or tardily and slightly acrid. Var. _tenu´ipes_. =Pileus= about 1 in. broad. =Stem= slender, 2–3 in. long and about 2 lines thick. Wet or mossy ground in woods and swamps. Adirondack mountains and Sandlake. July and August. Not rare in hilly and mountainous districts. _Peck_, 38th Rep. N.Y. State Bot. =Spores= globose, yellowish, 9–11.3µ _Peck_; pale ochraceous, subglobose, minutely echinulate, 9–10µ diameter _Massee_. West Virginia mountains, 1881–1885; Eagle’s Mere; Mt. Gretna, Pa. Solitary and gregarious, moist woods and wooded places. July to September. _McIlvaine._ In my long experience with the plant I have not seen any change of color, save that, like the white milk of other species, it darkens slightly to a cream color. I have found it distinctly umbilicate and quite umbonate in the same patch. L. lignyotus is one of the best of Lactarii and quite equal to L. volemus.