Lactarius gerardii

This is a key to gilled mushrooms, that is, mushrooms having a definite cap with a fertile surface consisting of gills. The fruiting body usually also has a stem, although that may be lateral or absent (usually, then, the mushroom is growing from wood). You can use this key to identify mushrooms that you find.

Flesh without fibers, fracturing with the same sort of break as a piece of chalk
Spore and gill color limited to white, yellow, or ochre
Mycorrhizal: occuring only on the ground, and only when there are trees nearby
No ring or volva on stalk
All fleshy-stemmed mushrooms whose gills exude a latex when cut go here

Fruiting bodies (especially the gills) exuding a liquid (called a latex) when broken
Stalk (and sometimes even gills) usually concolorous with cap

Cap brown to light brown or greyish, sometimes with lilac tinges or spotted; often fading to buff; not scrobiculate, often umbonate

Mundane Brown Lactarius     SubSection Not fragrant Latex white

Links from Look-alikes Velvety Lactarius     Subgenus Cap pebbled with minute bumps, giving it a velvety appearance; not scaly or furry Latex white, or colorless, not changing color (although it may stain the flesh of the mushroom a different color) Taste usually mild

Lactarius gerardii     Peck