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grows in woods and groves during late summer and autumn. 

 The pileus is fleshy, of medium thickness, convex and depressed 

 in the center from the young condition, and as the pileus expands 

 the margin becomes more and more upturned and the depression 

 deeper, so that eventually it is more or less broadly funnel-form. 

 The color varies from white to flesh color, tinged with yellow some- 

 times in spots, and marked usually with faint zones of brighter yellow. 

 The zones are sometimes very indistinct or entirely wanting. The 

 gills are crowded, white then yellow, where bruised becoming yellow- 

 ish, then dull reddish. The stem is equal or tapering below, hollow 



Figure 125. Lactarius chrysorrheus. Cap white or flesh color, often tinged with 

 yellowish, and with darker zones (natural size). Copyright. 



or stuffed, paler than the pileus, smooth (sometimes pitted as shown 

 in the Fig. 125). 



The plant is acrid to the taste, the milk white changing to citron 

 yellow on exposure. Figure 125 is from plants (No. 3875, C. U. her- 

 barium) collected in the Blue Ridge Mountains at Blowing Rock, N. 

 C, September, 1899. The species was quite abundant in this local- 

 ity during August and September, in chestnut groves, mixed woods, 

 and borders of woods. 



Lactarius deliciosus (L.) Fr. Edible. Lactarius deliciosus grows in 

 damp woods, is widely distributed and sometimes is quite common. 

 It occurs from July to October. It is one of the medium or large 

 sized species, being 3-10 cm. high, the cap 5-12 cm. broad, and the 



