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times of nearly the same color, but usually it is a darker-fulvous or 

 more red-brown, and the flesh is firmer. The odor is usually faint 

 at first, but becomes strong as it dries. To me the odor is like that 

 of slippery-elm bark. The pileus is polished in appearance and does 

 not fade with age nor become rimulose, 



"The European writers describe the pileus as zonate, but no zonate 

 specimens have been reported in the United States." 



Blowing Rock. Atkinson. 



Mount Pisgah. Burlingham. 



Low districts, woods, and thickets. Curtis. 



49. Lactarius rimosellus Pk. 



Plate 38. 



Cap up to 5 cm. broad, averaging much smaller (about 1.5-3 cm.), 

 sharply umbonate usually, but in age depressed around the umbo; 

 surface minutely subtomentose or plush-like, usually cracked into 

 small areas and appressed scales, deep brick-brown (onion-skin pink 

 to pecan-brown of Ridgway). Flesh firm, color of cap but lighter, 

 thin, 1 mm. thick halfway to margin ; odor aromatic, not like cam- 

 phor, becoming more pronounced in drying. Milk watery-white, 

 mild, unchanging. 



Gills rather distant, attached, broadest at stem where they are about 

 2 mm. wide, slightly decurrent, tough and elastic, a deep rich red- 

 brown and pruinose at maturity. 



Stem smooth, cartilaginous, slightly tapering upward, about color 

 of cap, but usually paler, lightest below, about 3.5 cm. long and 

 2-3.5 mm. thick in center, hollow. 



Spores (of No. 1173) light creamy-brown, subspherical to elliptic, 

 tuberculate to papillate, 5.5-7 x 6.6-8.2)". in diameter. 



A pretty little plant, quite common in late June and July and less 

 plentiful later. It is found in woods and groves among grass and 

 moss, generally on the ground, but sometimes on rotting wood. It is 

 plentiful in my yard under oaks. 



Miss Burlingham has seen my two collections of plants and consid- 

 ers them L. helvus, but I cannot agree with this determination unless 



