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Lactarius 
Pileus convex- expanded up to 2 cm diam, slightly hygrophanous 
velvety, mummy brown to buckthorn brown; flesh thick .buckthorn brown 
with tawny spots after cutting, very watery, edges thin, inrolled 
gills rery narrow, close thick, mustard yellow to citron yellow 
subdecurrent; stipe concolor with pileus up to 2 cm x 3 mm above, 
5 mm below, lowerhalf imbedded in soil which clings tenaciously 
as a pseudovolva.on 
On steep loess banks of roadside 
Specimens examined 
Costa Rica; San Jose, Rancho Redondo 2300 m. Podge & Thomas 4993 
