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Mycologia 
turn; context firm, white, not changing color, poisonous; latex 
white, unchanging, very acrid; lamellae whitish or cream-yellow 
tinged with pale-incarnate, some forking near the stipe, crowded, 
decurrent, thin, 5 mm. broad ; spores hyaline, broadly ellipsoid, 
echinulate, uniguttulate, 8-10 X 6-8 /x; stipe paler than the pileus, 
sometimes faintly spotted with yellow, equal or tdpering down- 
ward, glabrous or pruinose, smooth, stuffed, becoming hollow, 
3-7 cm. long, 2 cm. or less thick. 
Not uncommon in deciduous or coniferous woods from Maine 
to Alabama and west to Colorado. The specimens figured are 
rather small, but they serve to illustrate the chief characters of 
the species, which should be readily recognized by its persistently 
woolly margin and very acrid taste. It differs from L. cilicioides 
in being azonate with tomentose disk and white to flesh-colored 
tinged with fuscous. In the raw state, this species causes pain- 
ful gastro-intestinal disturbance in man, but the poison is said 
to be destroyed by heating. Ford has studied its action on 
animals and has demonstrated that it can produce an acute intoxi- 
cation with only a few of the characteristic muscarin symptoms. 
New York Botanical Garden. 
