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furnished with flattened fibers pinched up into scattered squamules 

 Avhich are somewhat concentrically arranged ; color a soaked ochra- 

 ceous or honey color with lighter zones and with faint heliotrope tints 

 where bruised ; not viscid. In mature plants the marginal tomentum 

 collapses and is not so conspicuous as in L. torminosus. Flesh firm, 

 brittle, white, turning rather slowly to a pretty heliotrope color when 

 cut. Milk white and remaining so; usually mildly astringent, but 

 very slightly acrid, or not at all so. 



Gills narrow, broadest in center where they are 4 mm. deep, reach- 

 ing the stem, but not decurrent except by a little tooth, many short, 

 but no forking ones ; cream color to maize yellow, turning heliotrope 

 when wounded. 



Stem up to 4.5 cm. long, firm, hollow, tapering slightly downward, 

 faintly tomentose at very base, only obscurely spotted or more often 

 marked by many large and small pock marks, which are brownish 

 yellow (egg yellow when young) like deeper parts of cap; areas be- 

 tween pock marks are nearly white or light to strong heliotrope ; 

 flesh except the very dry inside turning heliotrope when cut. 



Spores (of 'No. 2199) pure white, short-elliptic, papillate, 8.5-9,5 

 X 10.5-11.5/x. 



This species is like L. torminosus in its white, unchanging milk 

 and general appearance ; it differs in nearly mild milk, strongly spot- 

 ted stem, heliotrope change of color, less tomentose margin at matur- 

 ity, and larger spores. It is like L. scrobiculatus in strongly spotted 

 stem and not very fibrous margin, but differs in mild, unchanging 

 milk and heliotrope change in flesh. 



This species is so far known only from IsTorth Carolina, Virginia, 

 and Tennessee. 



753. Woods east of Graded School, September 13, 1913. 

 1812. In moss by Howell's Spring. September 17, 1915. Photo. 

 1855. In deep woods by Battle's Branch, near Strowd's pasture, September 



22, 1915. Stem strongly spotted, the surface between the. ochraceous 



spots a bright strong heliotrope. 

 2199. Wooded pasture southwest of Mr. Pritchard's. June 22, 1916. Spores 



cream color, subspherical to elliptic, distinctly papillate, 7.4-ll» long. 



