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Just below camp is a "Fairy Ring" about 30 feet across, almost complete with 22 mushrooms standing around the outer line of the circle.  They are fairly fresh & have a good smell, are 4 to 6 inches across & a thick, heavy form.  
[[image:  drawing of the Fairy Ring]]
The grass is rank & dark green & all other plants unusually [[?sank/rank]] in the circle which has a width of about a foot.  Besides grass there is Achilea milifolium, Artemisia, Chenipodium, mustard & other plants.
This is one of the typical circles seen all over the plains but rarely seen with the mushrooms present.

Near this circle is a little circle of Antennaria dioica, about 4 feet across.  It grows as a mat & the middle has died out, leaving a silvery ring a foot in width.
[[image:  drawing of the Antennaria circle]]

One of the mountain grasses grows in a ring in a similar way, the inner part dying out and the new shoots coming up on the outside of the circle so it constantly spreads.
[[image:  drawing of the mountain grass ring]]