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plant has a pleasant anise-like odor. By its hollow stem and 
smaller spores it is separable from //, russo-cortaceus. 
Hygrophorus paludosus 
Pileus fleshy, convex, obtuse, covered with a thick yellowish 
or brownish gluten, whitish ; flesh white, taste slightly acrid, odor 
earthy ; lamellae adnate or slightly decurrent, subdistant, whitish, 
stained with greenish-yellow when old; stem nearly equal, rather 
long, flexuous, often curved at the base, solid, glutinous, white, 
with yellowish glandular dots at the top, streaked with brownish 
fibers or shreds of the dried gluten when dry; spores white, 
broadly elliptic, 8-1o » long, 5-7 » broad. 
Pileus 2-4 cm. broad; stem 5-10 cm. long, 4~8 mm. thick. 
Growing among peat mosses. Greenville, Mich. September. 
B. O. Longyear. The species is apparently related to H. chryse- 
don, but its habitat is different, it is a more slender plant, the dots 
at the top of the stem become black in drying, and there are yel- 
ish stains at the base of the stem. 
Russula pulverulenta 
Pileus rather thin, convex, soon centrally depressed or sub- 
umbilicate, even on the margin, pulverulent or scurfy, grayish- 
brown ; flesh white, taste disagreeable, odor fetid ; lamellae moder- 
ately close, adnate, white, the interspaces veiny ; stem subequal, 
thickly beset with yellow dots or granules, white at the top, pallid 
below ; spores globose, 8 y in diameter. 
Pileus 3-5 cm. broad ; stem 3-4 cm. long, 8—10 mm. thick. 
Woods. Michigan. July. B. O. Longyear. 
The relationship of this species is apparently with R. foetevs and 
R. granulata, from both of which it is very distinct by the yellow 
pulverulence of the pileus and stem and by the even margin of the 
pileus. 
Russula ventricosipes 
Pileus thin, broadly convex, nearly plane or slightly depressed 
in the center, glabrous, varying in color from tawny yellow to pale 
alutaceous; flesh white; lamellae thin, narrow, close, slightly simu- 
ate, adnate, white or whitish, becoming discolored in drying ; ste™ 
stout, firm, ventricose, solid, or somewhat spongy within, sub- — 4 
glabrous, whitish above, reddish toward the pointed base; spOTe> 
broadly elliptic or subglobose, 6—8 » long, 6 broad. ae 
Pileus 5-7 cm. broad ; stem 5-7 cm. long, about 2.5 cm. thick oh 
in the middle, more narrow toward each end. 
