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groups or in clusters in lawns, gardens, copses and pastures and may be 

 found throughout the season if the weather is sufficiently wet. Its flesh 

 is tender but not highly flavored, and it may well be regarded as a very 

 good mushroom. 



It bears such a close external resemblance to Candolle's Hypholoma, 

 H. Cafidoileamim, that it has been thought by some to be a variety of it. 

 This close similarity is suggestive of the specific name. It differs from 

 that species in having the young gills white or whitish instead of viola- 

 ceous and in the gills being adnate instead of adnexed. In the color of 

 the gills and in the character of their attachment to the stem the species 

 makes an approach to a similarity with the appendiculate Hypholoma, 

 H. appendiculatu7}i, so that it really holds a place intermediate between 

 this and Candolle's Hypholoma. Its paler color and more even dry cap 

 separate it from the appendiculate Hypholoma. Its habitat is also dif- 

 ferent and it is not so apt to grow in tufts. 



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Lactarius Chelidonium Fk. *^ 



Celandine Lactarius 

 Plate 59 fig. 1-6 



Pileus convex, becoming nearly plane and umbilicate or centrally 

 depressed, grayish yellow or pale tawny, sometimes with a few narrow 

 zones on the margin, assuming bluish green tints or stains when old; 

 lamellae narrow, close, adnate or slightly decurrent, grayish yellow, milk 

 saffron color, scanty, mild ; stem short, nearly equal, hollow, colored 

 like the pileus ; spores yellowish, globose, .0003 in. in diameter. 



The celandine Lactarius is closely related to the delicious Lactarius, 

 from which it may be separated by its smaller size, shorter stem, paler 

 color, narrow gills and saffron colored milk. The cap is either broadly 

 convex, nearly plane or depressed in the center. Sometimes the central 

 depression is small like an umbilicus. The color is grayish yellow or 

 pale tawny and in some instances there are two or three narrow bands 

 or zones near the margin. When old, its cap becomes bluish green or is 

 marked by bluish green stains. 



The narrow gills are close together and are attached to the stem by 

 their entire breadth or are slightly decurrent. They are at first of a 

 peculiar grayish yellow or dingy cream color, but when old they are 

 generally whitish pruinose. In some specimens they are wavy or forked 

 at the inner extremity. The milk is scanty and paler than in the deli- 

 cious Lactarius. It is nearly a saffron color and is mild. 



