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zoned, again with obscure and distant zones. In color the cap may 

 be yellowish or orange-clay or orange-gray and is nearly always 

 marked with deep green zones and blotches towards and after 

 maturity. 



Gills a light orange-clay color, soon becoming duller and dotted 

 with green, then all green in drying, when wounded turning immedi- 

 ately to the milk color, a deep orange and then green. Milk deep 

 orange when fresh, then changing to green. 



Stem about 3-7.5 cm. long and 1.5-2.5 cm. thick, nearly equal or 

 tapering downwards, smooth, hollow in age, orange colored with 

 nearly white apex and base (in l^o. 601), or it may be violet-purple, 

 shading to blue or green below (in No. 107). Flesh a light creamy 

 orange color and often with greenish tint next the gills, quite mild or 

 slightly peppery. 



Spores (of No. 601) yellowish-cream color, subspherical to short- 

 elliptic, warted, 6.9 x 7.9/*. 



Our plants might as well be referred, perhaps, to L. Clielidoniuni 

 which seems poorly defined and doubtfully distinct from this. 



As the name implies, L. deliciosus is widely known as edible, and 

 is considered one of the best. For an illustration in color see Gibson, 

 Our Edible Toadstools and ^lushrooms, PI. 18; also, N. Y. St. ^lu. 

 Ref. 48: PI. 29. 1897. 2nd ed. 



107. Mixed woods, Battle's Park, October 28, 1910. 



601. Low place in woods back of athletic field, October 21, 1912. Photo. 

 777. By Howell's Brook, September 16, 1913. 

 896. Woods, fall of 1913. Photo. 

 1284. On rocky hillside in pasture about one-quarter mile southwest of 



Graded School, September 29, 1914. Two photos. 

 1310. In pine woods along path south of athletic field, October 6. 1914. 

 1335. Scattered through Rattle's Park in rather dry woods, north of ceme- 

 tery, October 13, 1914. 

 1370. In thick woods, hillside, northwest of Glen Burnie Farm, October 17, 

 1914. Photo. Spores light cinnamon-buff, subspherical to short- 

 elliptic, tuberculate, a large oil drop; 5.1-6.8x6.8-8.9^. 



Low and middle districts, pine woods. Curtis. 

 Asheville. Beardslee. 

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