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While hunting morels with
Alexander Smith in the
woods near Ann Arbor,
I mentioned
having found quantities of
Lactarius deliciosus in
the woods in northern Vermont.
He
said, “Were
the stipes viscid?”
I said,
“Yes, they were.” He
said, “It’s
not deliciosus; it’s thyinos.”
He went on to
say that people go through
their entire lives thinking
that things are that
when they are actually this,
and that
these mistakes are
necessarily made with the
very things with which
they are the most familiar.
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