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Russulae
Pileus 2 cm. expanded, disc depressed, Prouts brown, margin
striate, sulcate to disc., warm buff, pellicle not seperable;
flesh thin; taste very slightly & slowly acrid; gills broad,
close, white, stained brownish; stipe ventricose to subfusiform,
2.5 cm. # 4 mm. above, 7 mm. middle, 5 mm., below white, staining Saccardo's umber on handling.
Mossy bank.
Specimens examined:
Costa Rica, San Jose, Rancho Redondo, Alt. 2300-2400m, Dodge 5146
& Thomas