rufescent
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P. 5-8 cm. soon exp. often wavy, flesh thin; g. narrow, becoming rufescent; s. 5-8 cm. equal, elastic, rather mealy; sp.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
P. 1-2 cm. tough, reniform, dry, rufescent then whitish; g. crowded, distinct, white; s.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
Similar to No. 719a, but bill larger, upper surface usually rather deeper and richer brown, flanks somewhat more rufescent; W. 2.1; B. .6.
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Frank M. Chapman
P. convex-obtuse then exp. strigosely silky with long fibrils, rufescent, edge at first involute, strigosely ciliate; g. adnato-decur.; s. stuffed, downy, white. var. eriocephala, Fr.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
P. dry, convex, plane, umb. very minutely downy-squamulose, whitish then rufescent, edge striate, toothed; g. ventricose, pallid; s. fistulose, tough, scabrid-squamulose, tawny, strigose below. effugiens, Q. Very minute.
From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by George Massee
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