The color is bright blue when young, becoming pale and whitish in age, with a tendency to fuscous on the center.
"Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc."
George Francis Atkinson
We feel the worse side of the eighteenth century when Burke tells us that a thirst for Variety in architecture is sure to leave very little true taste; or that an air of robustness and strength is very prejudicial to beauty; or that sad fuscous colours are indispensable for sublimity.
"Burke"
John Morley