Lactarius hepaticus Plowright apud Boud. Später Milchling, Liver Milkcap. Cap 2.5–7cm across, convex, late flattened, sometimes with a central pimple, liver coloured to dull chestnut, surface dry and matt, margin often crimped or crisped with tiny lobes. Stem 30–70 x 4–8mm, reddish brown to brick-coloured. Flesh white tinged pinkish-buff, thin in cap stem becoming hollow. Gills slightly decurrent, pale buff, later deep buff to pale ochre with a mauvy bloom. Milk white, drying yellowish, a drop on a handkerchief turns sulphur yellow in one to two minutes; taste bitter and acrid, slowly slightly hot. Spore print cream (B). Spores broadly elliptic, with large warts, some isolated but mostly joined by thin to thickish ridges in a very incomplete network, 8–9 x 6–7µ. Habitat under pine. Season autumn. Common under pines in Southern Britain becoming rarer northwards. Not edible. Found In Europe and in northern North America.