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salmon or brick red or pink when in contact with the flesh, mild when 

 first tasted then after a moment becoming moderately or exceedingly 

 peppery, sometimes remaining quite mild. Fries says that the milk 

 is mild at first, soon becoming acrid, but after a time and in adult 

 specimens sweet and pleasant. 



Gills crowded or in some forms moderately distant, about 3-4 mm. 

 wide, pointed at stem and somewhat decurrent, none forked, many 

 short ones of about three lengths, at first nearly white, then light 

 cinnamon-buft". When bruised they become brick-red or salmon-red 

 in color. 



Stem up to 3 cm. long and 8 mm. thick, nearly smooth, color and 

 texture of the cap or lighter, nearly equal or tapering downward, 

 stuffed with much softer material and often becoming hollow (as in 

 No. 1593). 



Spores (of No. 771) cinnamon-buff (Ridgway), spherical, strongly 

 papillate and ridged, one large oil drop, 7.5-9^ in diameter, including 

 the spines, most about 8.3/*. 



771. Woods near Howell's Branch, September 16, 1913. Photo. 



1593. Damp ground near Battle's Branch, July 9, 1915. Photo. Spores cin- 

 namon-buff, spherical, 6.3-7.5„ in diameter. Milk white at first, then 

 brick-red when touching flesh. 



1628. Damp soil by Battle's Branch, July 22, 1915. This plant is typical of 

 L. plinthogalus, but the latex is absolutely mild. Cap texture of 

 leather, snuff-brown, zoneless, dry, wounds on any part turning sal- 

 mon-redi. Gills creamy, adnate. Stem even, texture of cap, some- 

 what lighter in color. 



1772. Battle's Park in woods west of Brockwell's Spring, September 12, 1915. 

 Milk mild. 



1817. Damp soil, woods below Howell's Spring, September 20, 1915. 



1834. In woods east of cemetery, September 20, 1915. Photo. Gills crowded, 

 narrow; stem stuffed; spores cinnamon-buff, spherical, 6.6-10^ in 

 diameter, most about 7.5», covered with a strong, blunt papilla^. 



2233. Bank of New Hope Creek, below Durham-Chapel Hill bridge, June 24, 

 1916. Spores 7.3-8.5^. 



2538. By path along branch above Meeting of the Waters. June 22, 1917. 



2577. Mixed woods. Battle's Park, July 2, 1917. 



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