rufescent

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P. 2-3 cm. diaphanous, obtuse, striate to middle, reddish or pinkish; g. adnate white; s. 4-6 cm. tinged pinkish rufescent, squamulose, base cottony; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

Differs from 758 and 758a, in more rufescent coloration on the flanks; sides and upper surface usually paler than No. 758.

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.

P. 2-5 cm. exp. glabrous, dingy tan; g. white then pallid; s. 5-7 cm. narrowed upwards, rufescent, woolly-hirsute; sp. 6-7 � 3-4.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The specimen most closely resembles T. s. rufescens in having, as compared to T. s. ohionensis, brighter, more rufescent color, wider incisors, proportionately narrower interorbital region, and more widely spreading zygomatic arches.

From Comments on the Taxonomy and Geographic Distribution of Some North American Rodents by Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)

P. 2-3 cm. convex then plane, even, viscid, granular, rufescent or yellowish; g. free; s. 2-3 cm.; s. dry, whitish floccosely squamulose up to ring; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George